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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.

Union dues are the way workers who have decided to form a union pool their resources to enable the work of the union. Union dues fund the cost of bargaining, the cost of enforcing the collective agreement, and the cost of campaigns union members instruct their union to conduct.

Flexible benefit plans are an attack on traditional benefit plans. Calling them ‘flexible’ makes them sound better than they really are. Flexible plans are also referred to as ‘cafeteria’, ‘supermarket’ or ‘smorgasbord’ plans.