Canadian Union (CUPE) study shows major benefits from investing in child care (September 09) http://cupe.ca/updir/Child_care_study-0.pdf
Labour and early learning and child care: an ideal union
This article, by CUPE National Research Officer Margot Young appeared in the Spring 2009 edition of Our Schools/Ourselves a quarterly journal on education and society published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “Unionization is beneficial not only for the child care workforce but also for the children in unionized centres, their parents, and for the whole society”.1 For centuries, unions have played a pivotal role in putting the concerns of working people forward to employers and to governments. More recently, they have also been partners in social and economic policy development and advocacy on universal, accessible, affordable, publicly funded and accountable, inclusive, public and quality early learning and child care that supports children’s development. Union involvement in advocacy has been crucial for moving early learning and child care onto the public and political stage and for improving daily working conditions, wages and benefits of those working in the sector.
http://cupe.ca/child-care/unions-benefit-early-learning-child-care
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