To solve the child care workforce shortage, ON should immediately implement a province-wide publicly funded salary scale - at least $30-$40/hour for RECEs. - at least $25/hour for non-RECE staff. - Annual increases and steps to reward years of service. - Benefit and pension plans

Early Childhood Educators and Child Care Workers keep children safe and secure, helping parents to better serve their communities! On Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 12PM at Queen's Park, join us for the National Day of Action for Early Learning and Child Care with our coalition

Thank you Carolyn Ferns of Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care for the nomination. A fun day. It’s recognition of the collective work of so many over such a long time

Impressive evidence of the effectiveness of Ottawa's Canada-wide early learning & childcare plan in today's fall fiscal update. The cost parents pay for childcare has fallen dramatically. 1/2

Next challenge: increasing the supply of quality, non-profit and public childcare services, so more parents & children can also benefit. The dual crisis of long waitlists and shortages of qualified childcare staff, will be harder to fix than price drops were. 2/2

We would like to invite you to our Phone Zap for Child Care Access on November 30th at 3pm EST and 7pm EST, during our National Day of Action. It will be held over Zoom and we will give you a script and information on which MPs to call. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Thank you to all participants for making last weekend’s National Child Care Advocacy Assembly such a productive success! Next up, we invite all child care advocates to join us in marking the National Day of Action for Child Care and Early Learning on November 30th.

Thank you to Mayor Olivia Chow 🇨🇦, Councillors Alejandra Bravo ausma malik for signing our Child Care is #WorthMore parachute today at City Hall.

I joined my colleagues and childcare advocates to support calls for more spaces and wage parity between private and public providers. We need a system of early learning and childcare services that are high-quality, affordable, inclusive and accessible for all families.

"Start thinking of child-care services as critical infrastructure”. Parent group calls for better access to child care in Lambton County. theobserver.ca/news/local-new… #DotsForSpots #WorthMore Jenna Sudds Stephen Lecce

Advocates say stall in building child-care centres in schools is 'incredibly frustrating' dlvr.it/SzXX7n

Child care advocates and workers rallied on the front lawn of Queen’s Park Thursday, urging the Ford government to hike wages for early childhood educators to help recruit more workers to the sector. toronto.citynews.ca/2023/11/30/chi…

Today is the National Day of Action for Child Care and Early Learning. I wore polka dots to show my support for high quality, affordable and accessible child care! #Dotsforspots

“They gave us $23 and we just got louder! We will not be divided. We will stand in solidarity because I know, as an ECE, that I cannot do my job without every other worker in my centre." - Jess Thomas, an ECE and CUPE 2484 Vice President. #dotsforspots cupe.ca/cupe-members-r…

CRRU at Queen's Park, Toronto for National Day of Action - reflecting on advocates' words about why decent wages/work/recognition and growth of quality non-profit/public #cdnchildcare are essential.

"The rally was part of the Canada-wide Day of Action for Child Care. Advocates say hundreds of thousands of families are stuck on waitlists for affordable child care – a crisis being driven by the workforce shortage." #DotsForSpots #WorthMore toronto.citynews.ca/2023/11/30/chi…

VIDEO: Child care workers and advocates rallied at Queen's Park demanding better wages and working conditions. As Tina Yazdani reports, a shortage of child care spaces is directly driven by a shortage of workers. #WorthMore #DotsForSpots toronto.citynews.ca/video/2023/11/…

On the Child Care Day of Action at Queen’s Park, I questioned the Ford government about the severe shortage of childcare spaces and how to improve this underfunded system. Child Care Workers are #WorthMore Carolyn Ferns Child Care Now

Excellent and timely piece by Kaitlin Peters. 👇 "If governments want to increase child care availability, they should make changes that make it easier and more effective to unionize the sector" monitormag.ca/articles/secto… #WorthMore