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CBC News
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Article
Publication Date:
6 Aug 2004
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About 200 daycare workers have joined the P.E.I. Union of Public Sector Employees in hopes of getting better wages.
People working in the field of early childhood education often have a college or university education but still make less than $9 an hour.
There are about 400 child care workers on the Island.
The federal government promised $5 billion for a national child care program to be distributed over the next 5 years. Workers are hoping some of this money can be used to increase wages.
"Really it started from a meeting with early childhood educators," says UPSE president Sandy MacKay. "They could see and employers could see that we're losing good staff because we can't afford to pay them."
- reprinted from CBC News
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