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Voice of the Chapter Chair
This year will be a great one for New York City’s 28,000 family child care providers. After years of waiting, the benefits in our contract that have not yet been implemented will go into effect over the next nine months. Chief among these is our health care coverage.
I’m glad to report that our chapter continues to grow and to advance the struggle for dignity for New York City’s 28,000 family child care providers. Each year, we fight for adequate child care funding for working parents and their children. Most recently, our activism helped reduce the size of the proposed city cut to child care subsidies from $91 million to $38 million.
In these tough times of budget cuts and fiscal austerity, we need the power of a union more than ever. Please speak out whenever you can, at union rallies, lobbying days and other events, in support of yourselves and your colleagues.
Congratulations! On Jan. 15, you ratified the first-ever contract for family child care providers in New York City. This contract offers us important improvements to our working conditions and the dignity for which we have fought so long.
Our chapter has much to celebrate, but as you know, we are still engaged in a fight with the city. Now is the time for you to officially join the United Federation of Teachers as a card-carrying member. The more providers that join the union, the more power we will have to fight for the payments we are owed and the changes we need in the rules and regulations that govern us. The strength of our union depends on you.
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