Urge Legislators to Support Families’ Top Needs: Good Union Jobs and Access to Quality Child Care Child care providers, including dozens of members of UDW-CCPU members, were joined by mothers, grandmothers, community partners and AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride as they rallied in Sacramento and spoke directly with legislators on May 1st – May Day – for the right to negotiate with the state and to use their voice to make changes to California’s early childhood education system. May Day is celebrated all over the world as International Workers Day, uplifting the contributions of workers and is an opportunity to highlight […]

There is so much going on with UDW-CCPU right now it is hard to keep up! Our movement of family child care providers has grown by thousands over the past few months and those added voices are making our call to fix California’s broken child care system impossible to ignore. We have the attention of state lawmakers, the media and, most importantly, the working parents with whom we are partnering to make childcare work better for providers–as well as for the families we serve. Here are some of the exciting things that UDW-CCPU members have made happen in the past […]