‘No more cupcakes’: Childcare educators to nationally strike | AngusGthompson
Childcare workers across the nation will shut down centres on September 7 and strike over poor pay and conditions that are causing early learning educators to abandon the sector in droves.
UWU early education director Helen Gibbons said marches would be staged across the country, including in front of Parliament House, on a date usually marked to celebrate early learning educators, who are given cupcakes as thanks.“We know this is a new government, but this has been a long time coming, and educators are leaving in droves, centres are turning away enrolments because there’s not enough staff. We need action and we need a plan and we need it quickly and we’re not prepared to wait.
“Educators can earn as little as about $24 an hour and they have a qualification and have all that experience and enormous responsibilities. It’s a really intense, difficult job. It’s a great job and we know the work that they do is really important, but they don’t feel looked after,” she said.
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