The National Child Care Working Group provides advice on how CUPE can advocate for universal, affordable, not-for-profit, regulated, high quality, unionized child care; organize more child care workers; negotiate on behalf of child care workers and better represent them on a day to day basis. This includes building our capacity to take action and to integrate the work with other sectors in CUPE.
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Child care
Parents need access to affordable, high-quality child care that meets the needs of their kids. Fees for child care have gone down across the country in recent years but they are still too high in too many places. Tens of thousands of families can’t find a daycare spot at all.
To expand access to childcare governments and employers need to recruit more child care workers. This will only be possible with meaningful improvements to wages, benefits and working conditions for early childhood educators and support staff.
CUPE fights for public, quality child care that is accessible to all families. We need child care for all.
Sector profile: Child care
CUPE represents early childhood educators, assistants, cooks, and cleaners in the sector in both stand-alone and multi-sector locals. The bargaining units tend to be small and the wages low. The employers can be not-for-profit volunteer-run boards, municipalities, school boards or for-profit.