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Election 2020: Ballot Propositions

By on September 16, 2020   /   Child Care News & Legislative Updates  
Election 2020: Ballot Propositions

Find out which propositions will help UDW members—and which ones will harm us and our communities. Proposition 14: Stem-Cell Research Bond UDW Recommends you vote YES Stem cell research may hold the key to promising treatments for many diseases such as Alzheimer’s, HIV/AIDS, stroke, diabetes and cancer. This proposition would raise money for the California institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and dedicate $1.5 billion toward research and therapy for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, epilepsy and other brain and central nervous system conditions that impact many of IHSS clients. Proposition 15: Schools and Communities First UDW Recommends you vote YES Our union has […]

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California Child Care Providers Unionize

By on July 30, 2020   /   Child Care News & Legislative Updates, UDW in the News  

After a historic vote, thousands of California child care workers are now eligible to join the Child Care Providers United union. One member of the new union, Charlotte Neal, said this could not have been formed at a better time as her profession struggles to make ends meet during the pandemic. Neal has been a child care provider for 19 years, and for the first time in her career, she can finally call herself a union member. “It’s a long time coming. I’m excited because now child care providers have a voice and we are essential workers,” Neal said. Continue […]

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California childcare workers score biggest union win of the century

By on July 30, 2020   /   Child Care News & Legislative Updates, UDW in the News  

  By an overwhelming margin, and after a 17-year campaign that started with lobbying and ended with successful organizing, AFSCME and the Service Employees scored a joint big win in California, winning recognition to represent at least 40,000 state-employed child care workers there. Presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden immediately congratulated the workers on their victory and declared in a tweet that he wants that victory to be extended nationwide and that he would use his position in the White House to make it easier for childcare workers across the entire nation to unionize. The win in California is the […]

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California’s child care providers win historic union election in landslide

By on July 29, 2020   /   Child Care News & Legislative Updates, News  

In a union election victory 17 years in the making, child care providers across California have voted overwhelmingly to be represented by their union, Child Care Providers United (CCPU). A joint effort of UDW/AFSCME Local 3930 and SEIU Locals 99 and 521, 97% of voters chose to join CCPU. “This has been a long time coming,” UDW Assistant Executive Director and AFSCME Vice President Johanna Hester said Monday. “This win gives 40,000 family child care providers in California the opportunity to bargain for higher pay, better training and increased access to care for every child who needs it.” In September, […]

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Child Care Workers Are Now a Mighty Force With a Huge New Union. It Only Took 17 Years.

By on July 28, 2020   /   Child Care News & Legislative Updates, UDW in the News  

A 17-year organizing campaign in California culminated this week in the successful unionization of 45,000 child care providers—the largest single union election America has seen in years. The campaign is a tangible achievement that brings together union power, political might, and social justice battles for racial and gender equality. Now, the hard part begins. Child Care Providers United (CCPU), the umbrella group now representing workers across the state, is a joint project of several powerful SEIU and AFSCME locals in California. Those unions divided up the state by counties, and workers will be members of either SEIU or AFSCME depending […]

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