Happy Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month from CCPU! As a majority woman of color workforce we stand strong in our commitment to fighting for respect and fair pay for child care providers who are historically undervalued and underpayed.

Victory! Child Care Providers ratified our third contract with the state after months of negotiations, rallies, and vigils. This comes after both #CALeg and Governor Newsom have ratified this agreement!

#CCPUCalifornia's tentative agreement with the state provides immediate stabilization for child care providers and essential pathways to the #truecostofcare. We urge #CALeg to ratify this agreement!

Child care providers and the working families we serve are struggling to get by due to rising costs of living and low pay. #CCPUcalifornia's TA with the state uplifts providers and ensures consistent care for families. 🗳️ 🗞️ ⤵️ https://bit.ly/3JWsmeh

Union child care providers fought hard this summer to secure a tentative agreement with the state that will help keep providers’ doors open. 💪 Now it's time to VOTE YES to ratify the agreement. Read why union sister Dora is voting yes! https://bit.ly/46eG17O

Families deserve access to affordable child care! ‼️🧑‍🍼 Limited subsidy slots and low pay for providers are limiting access to care. We appreciate Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen for calling this out and we look forward to working together on solutions. @cawomenscaucus.bsky.social

CCPU mourns the devastating loss of Mary Gutierrez-Hunter. When providers came together decades ago to talk about our lack of collective power to negotiate over poverty wages, benefits, and more, Mary stood hand in hand with providers to help us form our union.

Child care providers fought for months and WON ✊ by showing up to rallies, making calls, writing letters, and coming together at the bargaining table we preserved our benefits, won COLAs, and stabilization pay. Thank you @KQED for covering our fight! www.kqed.org/news/1205173...

🚨BREAKING🚨 #CCPUCalifornia has reached a tentative agreement w/the State of California that protects benefits, wins stabilization pay, & ongoing cost-of-living adjustments, helping keep child care doors open by starting to stem the loss of skilled providers created by low pay.

Working families can't afford to lose child care, but providers are being forced to close their doors every day. 📢 @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: stabilize child care now!

🚨 #CCPUCalifornia is pressing charges against the State of California. The state has: ➡️ engaged in bad-faith bargaining ➡️ illegally withheld state funds ➡️ taken unilateral action without union approval The state’s actions are unacceptable and unlawful!

No more empty promises @GavinNewsom 🙅❌ your administration has failed to deliver on your commitment to moving to the #truecostofcare and we don't have a next bargaining date for 2 more weeks!

For working families, access to subsidy slots is often the only way they can access child care. 🌱 🌻 But low pay is forcing providers to close every day, ripping care from families who need it most.

HUNDREDS of child care providers showed up last night in the face of continued disrespect from the state at the bargaining table! ‼️ Providers are being forced to close their doors, and inconsistent access to care harms our whole state!

Child care providers provide round-the-clock QUALITY child care, but with the state paying us less than minimum wage, "we cannot continue to do it and keep our doors open," says union sister Charlotte Neal. 📰 @kcranews.bsky.social: www.kcra.com/article/chil...

Our hearts are broken for union sister Patricia 💔 who is closing her child care because she can't afford to keep it open AND take care of her health. When providers close, kids and families fall through the cracks.

When we show up, we win! In our last contract, #CCPUCalifornia won a life-saving victory: health care benefits. "For the first time, I could cover my out‑of‑pocket medical costs and focus on healing instead of juggling bills," says union sister Pamela Rocha.

Strong families start with fair pay for child care providers! 🚸 Child care providers empower working families to thrive, but poverty-level wages make it impossible to cover all of our child care expenses. Read our union sister Wendy's story: childcareprovidersunited.org/fair-pay-wil...

📣🚸 Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: you say you're proud of your work on child care, but your administration has FAILED to deliver on their promise to pay providers the #truecostofcare. Providers are closing their doors every day, and families are scrambling to find care.

“Through our work at CCPU we have witnessed the power of advocacy in the lives of the providers we serve which has highlighted to us the importance of organizing our own labor. In order to best support members, it is important for us to also organize & advocate for ourselves." 1/2

👋 @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : working families rely on us to provide QUALITY child care, and we DELIVER. Despite the essential care we provide, we earn a mere $7-$10 an hour, and many of us can't take home any pay after covering the costs of running our child care.

🚨 Bargaining Update!🚨 After four consecutive days of negotiations in Sacramento, the #CCPUCalifornia Bargaining Team was ready to finalize a new contract, but instead of addressing the child care crisis, the state walked away! Read our full update: childcareprovidersunited.org/the-fight-fo...

If the state of California doesn't stabilize child care NOW, more providers will be forced to close their doors to the essential working families they serve! Read Rasiene's story on our blog! childcareprovidersunited.org/love-cant-pa...

📢STABILIZE CHILD CARE NOW! As our CCPU bargaining team continues negotiations for a new contract agreement, family child care providers came together in Sacramento with their kids to show their support and take action! #CCPUCalifornia

Strong families start with #fairpay for child care! 💪💪 Parents like Hazel rely on us to get to work, but decades of low pay is forcing providers to close their doors. Providers earn just $7-10, if they can take home any pay at all. #CALeg & @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: stabilize child care now!

Child care is in crisis!🚨Providers like Patricia Moran are being forced to close their doors due to low pay from the state, ripping essential, affordable child care from families.

The final #CABudget agreement makes progress toward stabilizing child care 🚸 This budget agreement is a small step toward the funding needed to achieve the final contract we’re fighting for. Read our statement: childcareprovidersunited.org/final-budget...

HAPPENING NOW 📣 Child care providers are at the Capitol, calling on #CALeg & Governor @gavinnewsom to stabilize child care!

Through our collective voice, child care providers have made strides winning rate increases and healthcare and retirement benefits, but the child care system is still in crisis and the state refuses to deliver on their promise for #fairpay NOW! www.kqed.org/news/1204522...

This is what provider power looks like! Thousands of us showed up in Sacramento last week to call on the state to follow through on their promise for #fairpay. We appreciate Senate Pro Tem Designee Senator Monique Limón and @cawomenscaucus.bsky.social for standing by us in our fight.

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The clock is ticking ⏰ for #CALeg & @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to raise rates for providers! And providers have SHOWN UP all week to make sure they hear us when we say NO WAY TO LOW PAY! Raise the rates now!

The state's proposal to cut health care benefits threatens life-saving medical care that providers couldn't previously afford. 😡 New op-ed in @Capitol_Weekly from union sister Pamela shares her experience! capitolweekly.net/canceling-he...

The state MUST deliver on its promise to raise rates for child care providers! Delaying any longer puts pressure on an already broken system where providers are forced to close their doors to families. Assemblymember Ahrens is standing by providers in our fight to raise the rates NOW!

Today we're honoring #Juneteenth by uplifting joy and celebration with our Black providers while committing to continuing to fight for justice for the Black women who are still fighting for fair pay in a child care system rooted in racism.

On Wednesday I rallied w/thousands of Child Care Providers United (CCPU) members on the CA capitol steps to demand fair pay & benefits for their essential work. Care workers keep our families, communities & economy going! They deserve to be treated with fairness & respect @ccpucalifornia.bsky.social

Tonight, providers are gathering at the Capitol for a candlelight vigil honoring the providers who have been forced to close and calling on the state to raise our rates NOW so families can access the quality care they need. 🕯️🕯️

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Child care providers aren't in this for the money. We're in this for the kids. To shape their futures. But we deserve #fairpay for the quality care we provide because love alone can't pay our bills. 💛💚💜

TAKE ACTION NOW 📞 📲 It's time to call Governor Newsom & let him know we need rate increases NOW! There are less than 3 weeks until our contract with the state expires and we won't stay quiet! www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

📢 HAPPENING TODAY 📢 Child care providers are in Sacramento for #CCPUCalifornia’s Day of Action! Thousands of us are here to make sure the states hears us when we say: NO MORE delays on their promise to pay us the #truecostofcare.

What is the #truecostofcare? It's #fairpay for the time, effort, and expenses that go into caring for California's kids. It's the: 👉 early hours 👉 late nights 👉 utility bills 👉 gas 👉 assistant pay that providers have to pay with the low rates that the state pays us.

Child care providers love what we do, 🫶💛 but love doesn't pay the bills! Fair pay ensures we can afford the rising costs of care for working families.💡🧸🍎 #CALeg: Stand with child care providers by moving to the #truecostofcare and the healthcare & retirement benefits we fought for. #ChildCareForAll

California’s child care providers congratulate Senator Limón on being elected to lead California’s Senate as Senate Pro Tempore! 👏 👏

We will not remain silent while ICE is attacking workers in our communities. We will fight back!

ONE WEEK until child care providers, families, and elected officials march on the Capitol for fair pay for quality child care!

Child care providers should not have work multiple jobs to stay afloat.😠 Our majority women of color workforce ensures California's families have access to affordable quality care and that job alone should be enough to pay our bills! #truecostofcare.

Child care providers are getting ready to head to Sacramento! 🚸🚸 There's only a month left until #CCPUCalifornia's contract expires and the state reaches their deadline to move to the #truecostofcare.

Child care providers have been caring for our state’s most vulnerable children and families at a loss for decades! 💔 It's time for the state of California to #RespectUs by paying providers the true cost of care.

Paying child care providers for the true cost of care ensures California's families can thrive by making quality, affordable child care more accessible. 👩‍👧👨‍👦 @asmdarshana.bsky.social , we appreciate you championing the #truecostofcare in last week's Assembly Budget hearing.