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Child care workers from four Ottawa centres rally with parents to secure a fair deal

OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Community members, parents, and child care workers will hold a solidarity rally as workers at four community-based child care centres enter their eighteenth-month of bargaining for a new contract. The workers are members of CUPE 2204 and are early childhood educators, assistants, cooks, and cleaners at Centretown Parents’ Day Care, Dalhousie Parents’ Day Care, Glebe Parents’ Day Care, and Vanier Co-operative Day Care. While they work tirelessly to set children up for a lifetime of learning amidst a workforce crisis in the child care sector, their employers are trying to divide workers against each other, forcing one group of workers to accept zeroes and fall further behind the cost of living.

CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn will speak at the rally alongside ONDP MPP Joel Harden and child care workers. Workers are asking members of the public who cannot attend to send a message of support: www.cupe.ca/ottawachildcare.

SPEAKERS:

 

Fred Hahn, President, CUPE Ontario

 

 

Joel Harden, ONDP MPP

 

 

Frontline child care workers

 

 

 

WHEN:

 

Thursday, October 3, 4-6pm

 

 

 

WHERE:

 

10 Fifth Avenue, Ottawa

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Contacts

For more information, please contact:
Jesse Mintz, CUPE Communications
416-704-9642
jmintz@cupe.ca

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Contacts

For more information, please contact:
Jesse Mintz, CUPE Communications
416-704-9642
jmintz@cupe.ca

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