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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