When you join CUPE you have:
- More power to win annual wage increases, benefits, and job security
- A process to address problems at work, and the power of a union to win solutions
- Proven expertise and advocacy in the child care sector
- Use your collective voice to improve your working conditions
Unionized child care workers with CUPE have won:
- Paid Program time (up to 5 hours for ECE’s)
- 18 sick days
- Access to Provincial Workplace Safety and Insurance Board coverage for injuries on the job
- Access to a pension plan such as the Multi Sector Pension Plan
- Professional fees paid
- Improved and guaranteed benefits (no changing of providers without your input!)
- Annual wage increases (separate from provincial top-up)
Join CUPE: The first step to building power is to sign a CUPE Union card.:
OR Text: 416-899-6445 to meet with your CUPE Organizer
Once a majority of Good Beginnings child care workers sign a membership card, CUPE will submit an application to the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB). Within 1 week, the OLRB will hold a vote. When the majority of workers who cast ballots vote YES, you will become unionized. Union cards and the vote are confidential: your employer never gets to see who signed union cards.