Child-Care Workers Eye Unionization
In what one organizer described as a '60s-style protest rally with guitar music and singing, a group of striking California child-care providers demonstrated on the grounds of the state Capitol in Sacramento last week, saying low wages are keeping good teachers from staying in the field.
The one-day strike was an attempt to give a higher profile to "Worthy Wage Day," as May 1 has been known by child-care workers since 1991.
"People think there's a crisis in K-12 [education], but they haven't seen anything yet," said Caroline C. Carney, a child-development instructor at Monterey Peninsula College and one of the organizers of the strike, called a CARE-OUT. That stands for Communities Addressing Retention of Early-Childhood...
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