Posted on 09/25/2007 9:15:51 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Maryland's daycare providers are banning together.
Dennis Edwards reports the effort to unionize involves more than 2,000 daycare providers state wide, and they believe what's best for them is what's best for the families they serve.
Children play outside a daycare center; their parents watch with pride as they stand in support of daycare providers who are taking the first steps toward forming a union.
"Today I am proud to announce that Maryland Family Child Care Providers have voted 75 percent to form our union with SCIU Kids First," said child care provider Maydee Green.
In May, hundreds of daycare providers marched into state offices in Annapolis demanding payment for care provided to low income children.
The more than three month payment delay was apparently due to a mix up caused when a new state agency took over the process.
Now more than 2,000 daycare operators are determined not to allow that to happen again by joining a union.
Most daycare providers work out of their homes. They tell Eyewitness News joining a union will help them to accomplish major goals.
Annette Scurry cares for six youngsters in the Essex area. She hopes the SCIU can help lobby the state legislature for easier and better child care funding for low income families who can't afford the current purchase of care co-payment.
They may be able to get higher POC reimbursement rates. Right now they are low and the parent are having to pay higher co-pay, so if we can negotiate with the state maybe we can get them a lower rate," said Scurry.
Daycare organizers say their is some opposition within the ranks to unionizing, but providers say they're determined to ask the state legislature to give them the right to vote for a union.
One for your list.
Why bother?
I suppose now they’ll demand $30/hr+benefits etc. Weekly daycare will now be $1500 a week per child. And it will take 2 years of mediation (paid) to get fired. Awesome.
$5/hr???.....$10?hr????...maybe $20?hr?
people think nothing of paying for a $15 hair cut that takes a few minutes (especially folks like my hubby, who has little hair left...lol) plus giving a tip.....
you pay upwards of $10 or more to drive your car thru an automatic car wash that takes like 5 minutes...
LOL!
Maybe this will encourage more parents to take care of their own children.
You got it. This has been coming. It is part of the plan.
Are you a daycare worker? I’ve been watching this march for 3 decades and it scares me to death. If women do not want to care for their own children, then they shouldn’t have any. Should the tax dollars of others subsidize daycare and preschool? This is what Democrats believe and what they are working towards. This is what Hillary wants. She wants the government to help pay for the care of children, not to simply help families in tough financial situations, but in order to ensure that mothers enter and remain in the workplace.
You must be kidding? You don’t get a haircut 8hrs a day/ 5 days a week. Those car wash machines cost 10s of thousands of dollars. Your analogies need some serious work. Most day care centers here charge between $150-$200 a week per kid. Usually 2 recent highschool grads are doing the caretaking. They watch around 20 kids together. That’s about $4000 a week to the owner, who usually pays about $8-$10/hr to the employee. You aparently have no business acumen. These union caretakers will be out of business very soon.
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