Childcare workers at London Bridge are organizing a union to achieve improvements to pay, benefits, and to have a say in their future.
Workers at London Bridge work at 20 sites across the London & Middlesex, Huron County and Lambton County areas. If you join together, you can not only negotiate improvements at London Bridge to working conditions and the quality of care, but also help raise the standard for other child care workers in the London area.
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The London Bridge management has hired consultants that specialize in aggressive anti-union campaigns that undermine workers’ confidence and spread misinformation about union power. The truth is that you and your coworkers have the right to use your collective voice and improve your working conditions, just like so many thousands of other workers already have!
Unionized child care workers with CUPE are winning (right now!):
The truth is that many unionized child care workers in centres with the same funding formula as London bridge have recently won:
- Yearly wage and benefit increases
- Job security: no discipline or discharge without just cause
- Paid program time (up to 5 hours for ECEs)
- 18 sick days
- Coverage under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board if you get injured at work
- Multi sector pension plan
- A process to address problems at work, and the power of a union to win solutions
Despite what employers say about their lack of funding, when workers organize and demand better, they can and do win improvements!
The average wage for a child care worker in CUPE is $31/hour and workers are actively campaigning to increase the starting wage for ECEs to $35-40/hour and for all other child care workers to $25/hour.
You are the Union!
In CUPE, the members – that’s you – make the decisions. Each CUPE bargaining unit elects its own leadership, decides priorities for negotiations and how to best work together to make improvements. You and your co-workers vote on what goes to the table, and you vote on whether to accept what is negotiated at the table. CUPE’s 740,000 members will be with you, as will access to the $100 million strike fund if you ever need it.
When you and your coworkers organize through 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.
It takes collective power to win! Through your collective power in CUPE, you and your co-workers can improve your working conditions in the sector.