How we’re winning a stronger voice
More than 90,000 family child care providers across the country have already joined together in SEIU Kids First for a stronger voice for our professions, our communities, and the children and families we serve. Together, SEIU family providers are winning the improvements we need to protect quality child care.
Carmella Haygood, Illinois
“Until this year, it cost a fourth of my wages just to keep my kids fed. But with SEIU Local 880, we won a food subsidy program. Now our kids get more nutritious meals, and I can afford to stay in business.”
June Swett, Massachusetts
“As a family child care provider for 20 years, I feel we should be involved in the decisions that affect child care services and the families who depend on us. With the help of SEIU Local 888 we now have a stronger voice.”
Melida Brito, Rhode Island
“Helping children grow and learn is the most important job there is, and working together with SEIU will help make it a job we can keep doing.”
Nancy Gerber, Washington
“United in SEIU, we can have a strong voice in the decisions that are made about our kids and our businesses.”
JoVann Nash, Maryland
“It’s hard to stay healthy taking care of children. Rhode Island family child care providers won affordable health insurance, and united in SEIU to protect the gains they’ve made. We need that kind of strength in Maryland—That’s why I’m joining with other providers in SEIU.”
Martina Casey, Illinois
“With SEIU, child care providers are respected as professionals. We know what it takes to provide quality care, and now with our union, we have a voice to make that happen.”
Linda Petersen, Oregon
“I’ve worried that I can’t afford to keep providing child care, but so many parents and kids count on me. That’s why I’m counting on our union with SEIU to improve our jobs so we can stay in business.”
Terry Forde, Connecticut
“Too many families can’t afford quality care for their children. Together in SEIU, child care providers have a stronger voice for the improvements our communities need.”