Press Release: Child Care Providers Win Big in Historic Agreement with State
For Immediate Release June 28, 2022 Contact: Maya Polon, (916) 444-7614 An agreement between providers and Governor Newsom guarantees contributions to providers’ health care and retirement security. SACRAMENTO, CA – The 40,000 child [...]
Child Care Providers Demand Meeting with Governor Newsom at Capitol “Swing Space” Office
While Newsom has been a long time child care advocate, child care providers’ negotiations with his staff over health care and retirement funding have stalled. On June 8, CCPU members traveled back to Sacramento [...]
Child Care Providers are back in front of Governor Newsom’s office in Downtown LA
On Thursday, June 2, family child care providers marched, picket and broke open an oversized piggy bank piñata in front of Governor Gavin Newsom’s office in Downtown Los Angeles urging him to invest some [...]
Demanding a pathway to retirement
Nationwide, 95% of union workers have retirement plans. Here in California, 50% of all workers have retirement plans. But less than a quarter of child care workers in California have retirement plans and living [...]
Legislative Champions: Standing up for Child Care Providers and Working Families
A "Thank you" letter to state legislators from Child Care Providers United Members (CCPU) "From the beginning, you understood that family child care providers are early educators and our work is valuable. You [...]
Child care providers, Assemblymember Miguel Santiago rally at capitol for health care & retirement dignity
Child Care Providers United (CCPU) members gathered at the State Capitol in Sacramento on Tuesday, May 3, to call on the Newsom Administration to meet their demands for quality affordable health care and [...]
Child Care Providers, Medical Professionals Rallied Outside of Los Angeles Hospital for Affordable Health Insurance
Child Care Providers, Medical Professionals Rallied Outside of Los Angeles Hospital, to Call on Governor Newsom to Make Good on Promise for Affordable Health Insurance for Providers Child care providers from across Southern California [...]