Child Care Union Sponsors Business Workshop for Northern California Providers

Redleaf National Institute director Tom Copeland (center) and N. California CCPUnited leadersOAKLAND, CA—Child Care Providers United (CCPUnited), a union of family child care providers, sponsored an innovative business skills and tax workshop in late April to train family child care providers how to successfully manage their businesses and offered tools to mentor and support other providers.

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Child Care Providers Form Exciting New Union

Family child care providers across California are celebrating a historic part­nership with the American Federation of State & County Municipal Em­ployees (AFSCME) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to build a new union for child care providers led by child care providers.

Child Care Providers United of California (CCPU-CA) is the official name of this exciting new union. Formerly known as the United Child Care Union (UCCU) and affiliated with AFSCME’s National Union of Hos­pital Health Care Employees (NUHHCE) and SEIU’s Kids First, CCPU-CA and its sister union Child Care Providers United of Pennsylvania (CCPU-PA) are part of a nationwide movement of family child care providers and the labor movement to win respect, recognition, and justice. The historic union may soon include nearly 125,000 family child care provid­ers in Pennsylvania and California.

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