Opinion: Child care is essential work, and it’s in crisis
Read Our New Coalition Letter
Providers have been busy sounding the alarm on California’s child care crisis which has led over 5,251 of us to close our doors. Last week, CCPU, parents, community allies, and our larger union family, took action statewide in socially distanced car caravans and press conferences outside Gov. Newsom’s offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento […]
Child Care in Crisis, Day of Action – 9/30/20
California’s child care system was already in crisis before the pandemic, and now our struggles have only gotten worse. Over 5,000 child care providers have closed their doors in 2020, while thousands more are facing challenges that are only getting harder. But unions are made for this exact moment. To create real change, we […]
Gov. Newsom: Protect Our Care
New Law, New Protections for Providers!
Defeating COVID: Updates
Why Child Care Workers Will Benefit From Unions
For 25 years, I’ve woken up long before the sun and opened the doors to my family child care business by 5 a.m every day. Before the last parent arrives for pickup around 11 p.m., I’ll have welcomed 14 young children into my home, sung dozens of songs, prepared scores of meals, and taught a […]
California Can Afford It!
Collective bargaining for family child care providers?
As rents and inequality have soared, many workers haven’t had much to celebrate with a Labor Day picnic. The working moms and dads whose children I care for rarely get a holiday off — and that means neither do I. Long hours and irregular schedules are common for parents working nonstop to lift their families […]
Good child care: Listen to parents, kids, providers
BY CHARLOTTE NEAL AND RUBY CHEGE They say it takes a village to raise a child, and that may be true. But this much we know for certain: for working families in today’s economy, it takes, if not a village, at least a solid team. The backbone of that team is parents, children and caregivers. […]