Child care and unions - taking the next step

Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC endorsement of unionization

Child care and unions - taking the next step!

The (CCCABC) actively promotes unionization as part of their strategy for achieving a publicly funded, non-profit, high quality, accessible, affordable child care system, because:

unionization promotes quality
Unionized child care settings are more likely to pay higher wages, provide better working conditions and benefits, and support professional development. Unionized settings employ staff with higher levels of training and experience lower levels of staff turnover.

unionization gives workers a voice
Unions can help end the isolation child care workers experience by bringing them together to have a collective say in building a child care system that works.

unionization influences public policy
Unions have a long history of advocating for universal, publicly funded and democratically controlled social programs. Until governments agree to fund a child care system based on these principles, child care workers won't get the wages and respect they deserve and families won't have access to the affordable quality child care they need.

www.cccabc.bc.ca