Proividers begin negotiating first UFT contract

Providers begin negotiating first UFT contract

At the opening of negotiations to secure a first contract for the city’s 28,000 newly organized home child care providers, UFT President Randi Weingarten stressed the need to improve the salaries and working conditions of “our children’s first teachers,” if we are to improve the learning conditions and educational opportunities of the 60,000 children in their care.
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Preparing for a contract

Preparing for a Contract

Close to 100 family child care provider leaders spent a busy day learning about the negotiating process that will win them their first contract at a daylong retreat on Jan. 12 at UFT headquarters. Participants said, “the day educated us to the next level.”

Contract negotiations with the governor’s office should begin before the end of the month.

Checks in the mail

Providers Choice Checks in the Mail

Provider’s Choice checks for $150 will be in the mail for 10,000 providers in the next two weeks. Funds must only be used for supplies to improve home-based day-care providers’ programs. Read more.

Fighting for Market Rate

Fighting for Market Rate Increase

Market rate, the rate set by the state to pay for the subsidized children the newly organized UFT providers care for 10 to 11 hours a day, has finally gone up for some providers. Unfortunately providers haven’t received the raise because the city claims it has no money. At a recent press conference on Jan. 23 at UFT headquarters, providers called on the state legislature to pass the budget with the increased spending earmarked for child care and gathered market rate forms to send to ACS. Read more.

Download informal provider market rate form and licensed market rate form.