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URGENT! Turn in your providers choice receipts!
URGENT! Turn in your providers choice receipts!
If you received the $150 from the providers’ choice program and would like to be eligible to receive it next year you MUST turn in your receipts NOW! We are in jeopardy of NOT receiving ...
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Providers begin negotiating first UFT contract
Providers begin negotiating first UFT contract
At the opening of negotiations to secure a first contract for the city’s 28,000 newly organized home child care providers, UFT President Randi Weingarten stressed the need to improve the salaries and working conditions of “our children’s first teachers,” if we are to improve the learning conditions and educational opportunities of the 60,000 children in their care.
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Preparing for a contract
Preparing for a Contract
Close to 100 family child care provider leaders spent a busy day learning about the negotiating process that will win them their first contract at a daylong retreat on Jan. 12 at UFT headquarters. Participants said, “the day educated us to the next level.”
Contract negotiations with the governor’s office should begin before the end of the month.
Checks in the mail
Providers Choice Checks in the Mail
Provider’s Choice checks for $150 will be in the mail for 10,000 providers in the next two weeks. Funds must only be used for supplies to improve home-based day-care providers’ programs. Read more.
Fighting for Market Rate
Fighting for Market Rate Increase
Market rate, the rate set by the state to pay for the subsidized children the newly organized UFT providers care for 10 to 11 hours a day, has finally gone up for some providers. Unfortunately providers haven’t received the raise because the city claims it has no money. At a recent press conference on Jan. 23 at UFT headquarters, providers called on the state legislature to pass the budget with the increased spending earmarked for child care and gathered market rate forms to send to ACS. Read more.
Download informal provider market rate form and licensed market rate form.
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We’re family child care providers like you. We’d like to share our stories with you. And we invite you to share your story as well. Click on any of the names below to meet some of the family providers who are organizing with UFT Providers.
Tammy Miller - Brooklyn
Jenny Rivera- Manhattan
Gladys Jones - Staten Island
Melvina Vandross - Bronx
The movement to build a union
The movement to build a union for providers has already paid off for dozens of providers who have received back pay totalling $170,000, notes Brooklyn Provider Tammie Miller in Our Road to Empowerment.
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