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Early Childhood Education

Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) provide an invaluable service to Canadian children and their families and to the future of our country. These dedicated workers help shape our children’s social, physical, emotional and cognitive development.

Unfortunately, these dedicated workers are subject to low wages, high levels of job insecurity, limited career opportunities and lack of recognition. For example, the earned income for an ECE is half of the national average. They are exposed to physically demanding work, poor physical environments, infectious diseases and stress.

The National Union has and will continue to advocate to ensure that ECEs are properly compensated and recognized for the work they perform.

Publications
 


Ont. child care cuts will hurt poor kids and kill jobs

'The report shows there’s a lot more at stake than lost child care spaces.' - Andrea Calver.

Full-day kindergarten will start in Ontario next fall

Program will cost $1.5 billion when fully rolled out by 2015, says Premier Dalton McGuinty.

SFU child care society makes gains in new contract

Wage increases plus steps to address bullying in the workplace.

Celebrating child care workers and early childhood educators in Ontario

Oct. 21 marks the ninth annual day of appreciation for child care workers and early childhood educators in Ontario.

Child care programs produce big economic bang

'Over the long term, every $1 invested in quality child care programs returns $2.54 in benefits to society.' - CCAAC.

P.E.I. must continue to fund early learning

'Government needs to step forward with a comprehensive plan to ensure that quality care and education for our young children is here now and in the future.' - Shelley Ward.

Grim report on early childhood education and care

'The decrease in provincial budget funding for child care is most likely a result of the Harper Conservative government’s 2006 cancellation of the bilateral agreements.'

N.B. child care centres looking at H1N1 insurance

Working with health and social development departments to come up with a plan in case centres are forced to close.

University of BC child care workers vote to join BCGEU

Workers at five new child care centres at University of B.C. have voted to join the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union to make their work place better.

Manitoba boosts child care spending by $11 million

'Child care is a critical piece of the puzzle for many Manitobans these days.' - Gord Mackintosh, family services and housing minister.

Early Learning and Child Care Act reintroduced

NDP again asks Parliament to pass legislation that would lay a foundation for a national child care system. 

New NUPGE leaflet: Our kids gotta come first

Canada has one of the lowest child care access rates in the industrialized world and fees are among the highest.

Just say no to the expansion of for-profit child care

Beware of child care property development/leaseback schemes, proposals to expand for-profit child care and pressure to reduce quality standards.

Women tired of lip service on Equality

Conservative government is paying lip service to improving the lives of women even as it refuses to support pay equity, child care and economic measures that support women's equality.  So the Canadian Labour Congress is sending each Member of Parliament a gift of chocolate lips with an accompanying note - 'women are tired of lip service'.

Effects of Harper's misguided plan for child care becoming glaringly clear

Conservatives' plans in child care leading to shrinking number of child care spaces and they have chosen to ignore the crisis in the recent federal budget.

Canada ranks last with Ireland in UNICEF child care report

Survey of child care standards in 25 developed countries

Quebec Court declares laws denying right to join a union unconstitutional

The Superior Court of Quebec has declared unconstitutional two pieces of legislation denying certain home care and child care workers their right to join a union and other labour rights.

A warning: the ABCs of the perils of for-profit child care

The Australian experience should teach the Harper government a lesson

Child care campaign making final push to Oct. 14 election

'Time to vote for the party you trust most to deliver a universal, community-based child care system.'

Jack Layton announces new national child care strategy

$1.4 billion to create 150,000 child care spaces

B.C. child care regulation changes weaken quality care

BCGEU will continue lobbying for a better system

Celebrating child care workers and early childhood educators

Oct. 24 marks the seventh annual day of appreciation for child care workers and early childhood educators

SFU Child Care Society workers accept three-year agreement

'This strike has been about equity.' - Ursula Clark, BCGEU

B.C. woman planning to run 'a million steps' for child care

Shelagh Germyn trekking 260 kilometres from Campbell River to Victoria

SFU child care workers to begin full scale job action

Mediation ends as employer continues to demand rollbacks

Simon Fraser child care workers serve strike notice in B.C.

Fighting to recover from cuts imposed four years ago

Ontario invests $12 million to create first child care college

'The whole concept of the college is to raise the bar.'

Harper flip-flop shows tax breaks can't create child care spaces

Tories now plan to give the provinces and territories $250 million with no strings attached

First PEI Early Learning Centre to ratify contract

Created workable solutions to some difficult issues.

Celebrating child care workers and early childhood educators

Oct. 25 marks the sixth annual day of appreciation for workers whose job is a special calling

Keep the child care promise

(Feb 20, 2006) -- 'In keeping the child care promise, Stephen Harper can demonstrate leadership and a mastery of statecraft that would serve him very well when he next goes to the polls. Does he have it in him?'