Early Childhood Educators Demand Pay Increase With Childcare Strike

[@jomo2332]

Early childhood educator deserves high salary coz they are teachers too and taking care of small children is not easy. I salute them

[@madvidz9819]

Thank you!

[@kae1375]

Its hard 😭😭😭😭

[@ursusmega2803]

Good quality early childcare makes a HUGE difference to the functioning of family. Happy to pay more to retain the great carers we have.

[@susanboucher317]

My daughter was a child care worker who was discriminated after losing her father which has destroyed her confidence in looking for another position there is to much bullying and harassment in child care

[@teresat6876]

She should not let this destroy her destiny daycare workers need good ppl this should not let her continue what she loves to do I pray that she gets her confidence back to move forward forgive those who have judged her and move forward

[@andrewgonzales1359]

How was she discriminated after losing her father? I’ve also experienced the same treatment.

[@sueelliott4793]

I am a student and MOE came to the politech and told us that ECE teachers who have any problems with employers should get hold of them (MOE), and lay a complaint. They will do an investigation as it is not in the interest of the tamariki if there is workplace bullying etc. Get hold of them.

[@ashleighh472]

We are teachers, we are qualified on child development and brain development. We learn more about this within our ecec courses then a teacher actually learns in a bachelor of education. We follow a curriculum and educate young minds during the most important years of their life. I'm so sick of being treated like a baby sitter or someone who just blows noses all day. Yes we play with the children and care for them because some are at an age were they can't tend to those needs independently but everything we do is steps towards a child becoming who they are and helping them succeed in life.

[@michaelalittle3622]

Yess, I love this, me too

[@AAAA-vu7fp]

Kids that come out of "centres" where you brain developed educators put ideas into their heads tur out rebellious and cunning and disrespectful. I have seen numerous young people not offer seats on trains to old and pregnant women.those young kids being the product of the "education system"

[@ashleighh472]

@@AAAA-vu7fp Grace and Courtesy is literally a curriculum area in Montessori education and the EYLF. Please don't blame hard working childcare educators for shifting people's behaviour.

[@Homeschoolingece]

Exactly

[@kae1375]

This is why I am doing my masters in another profession it is stressful working in early years and the demand of paper work and less pay fed up

[@owengordon2156]

I left my job because $10.00 is not enough. Teacher's deserve more

[@tigerbarksdale6899]

Childcare cost more then a rent and mortgage. An they still not paying the workers. Smh. Where the money going.

[@silviathomas3224]

Early childhood is the most important area of human development. One of the major issues is when the government gave money to private companies and stopped developing Council and not for profit centres. The government needs to re-establish the not for profit sector and also the pay should equal the pay and conditions offered in schools for teachers and teaching assistants. The sector wants to not only recognise that staff leave not just over the money but the actual conditions and expectations. It is time that the people that is needed by that sector come before profit.

[@georgepappas2917]

child care providers are responsible for wage increases to educators

[@jralberto23]

Yes exactly, I don’t understand about this protest. They need to go to child care providers who underpay their teachers. I don’t know any better when I moved here from New Zealand. Having 11 years experience in working as an ece teacher with masters degree i was getting paid 30 an hour. I blame the owner who used me because of course I did not know that there is this teachers awards which they base pay parity. Blame the money driven owners who underpay their staff. Stop protesting this non sense

[@thegeorgiemoore]

@@jralberto23 how do you propose they get their bosses to take action without walking off? do you think they just haven’t asked enough?? genuinely curious

[@Homeschoolingece]

Seriously early years teachers should be highly paid in the world as they not only teach education but much more else that has great impact on a child’s personality 👍🏽

[@shayne8980]

If you want someone responsible to look after your kids they need to be paid or look after them yourselves

[@evaphillips2102]

There’s another issue. A lot of people who actually need childcare simply don’t make the money to pay workers what they deserve.

[@aliwaugh5033]

Child care shouldn’t be privatised. Throw some numbers around. Let’s say it costs $120 per day per child. In a room of 15 kids, that’s $1800 per day. Times that by 6-8 rooms per centre and that’s a huge amount of money these centres are making. Take out staff wages, insurances, costs, and it is a huge daily profit for these centres. Maybe the educators could be seeing some of THAT money.

[@liyah918]

It’s not that easy.

[@lifeonmars478]

At literally any point in the last few decades the government could have opened completely government-built services and have the staff as government employees. You know how many public childcares they have built 0.

[@madvidz9819]

12$ hour at headstart , i work at. Poverty money my mom says lol. I’m a Male working in the field. I'm a teacher assistant. I see and do what the women do. They and me lol 😂 should get paid more for what is done ✅.I'm already burned out and getting my associates degree in child development . Working in a prek opens your eyes as to how under paid they and we are . Should we get a doctors salary, no. 👎 I’m not saying that . But I mean , come on , at least above poverty a little . Plus what is the degrees worth ? I mean . This is USA 🇺🇸

[@madvidz9819]

You should work it if you think otherwise. It will open your eyes for sure .

[@marksargent2908]

Not only does it not reach the workers, but fees seem to rise when more funding is put in! The whole industry is a rort!!!!

[@andrewgonzales1359]

This is so much more than what people are paid in the United States hourly, and I’ve done the work.

[@andrewgonzales1359]

I used to make $16/hr but it’s sometimes less than that.

[@mossm8304]

Hi Andrew, In Australia, we pay more taxes, and high rent and glossary are high than in your country. We strictly follow up on Australia Education and Care Regulation and Early Years Learning Framework. And teachers and diplomas must do many plans and paperwork for the individual children. In addition, we have to support those who need additional care. I heard the UK and US pay less than Australia. I understand that Australia pays more than other countries. However, Early childhood educators earn less than primary school educators and teachers, but we work more than school educators. I am an early childhood teacher, but I still struggle to live in Australia. After paying bills and taxes, I hardly save income for my future. If you wish to work in good condition, please search not for profit company rather than the private child care service. Cheers!

[@marksargent2908]

$27K per year to send your kids to childcare 5dys a week on the Central Coast NSW. $23K to send a child of 5yrs to a private school here in Sydney. Ludicrous!!! Whole industry is a frkimg rort!!!!

[@lifeonmars478]

As someone who owns one extreme government regulation, diverse curriculum demands and the huge cost of running and building these places demands that price. If you want someone else to care for your kids more hours than you spend with them in a week you should be paying for it.

[@marksargent2908]

@@lifeonmars478 cry me an effin river...system is a rort!!!

[@godislove3002]

Early childhood teachers are the one who are creating the foundation. They deserve a better pay. We love our teachers ❤

[@estidoza9271]

I highly agree, early Childhood Educators need a a big pay race. I mean BIG.!!!!!

[@Rosyrasul4654]

Absolutely its hard to even get by with the pay we get 😑and the amount of work study and all takes up all the time and weekends and all ☹️

[@voulathomacos-lagonas8445]

Rightly so ....they should be well paid...as well as teachers at ALL levels ....consider people these well trained and professionals spend MORE time with your children than you do

[@ssjup81]

Wish we had something happen here in the US…

[@bpots717]

So necessary.

[@rubimalik4878]

I wish UK would give Early Years Practitioners equal pay to eyfs teachers. We are overworked and underpaid. We are educators too .

[@elizabethsayer1341]

Yes! What about the 'education supply chain' in the UK? Why aren't Unison, NEU, NASUWT or UCU unions organising across the 'sector'! A casualised sector populated by badly paid, young women who need support to organise and demand better terms and conditions and decent wages.

[@adalmandol5340]

Greed

[@lrrfromomicronpersei8230]

Why don’t they go to their teacher unions and tell them to stop sending money to politicians and have them put the funds into schools and teachers?

[@cherylwilliams7944]

Most do not have Unions.

[@lrrfromomicronpersei8230]

@@cherylwilliams7944 oh okay thank you. Wasn’t sure.

[@thegeorgiemoore]

@@lrrfromomicronpersei8230 yeah not worth the annual fee when you earn $25 an hour lmao 😭

[@sueelliott4793]

There is a union. I'm an ECE student and the ECE union came and did a talk at my institution last year.

[@cherylwilliams7944]

@@sueelliott4793, glad you have one. I worked at one center that had a Union and one without a Union. Best wishes.😊

[@chickenlurkinyungchihuahua]

This industry is totally doomed. I still don't get why it's so hard to pay care takers and educators well. Child care centres are not a dumping ground and put some respect on the profession.

[@junebug.1622]

Not sure where this is from but I only make 15.00 per hour and 25 years working in childcare

[@awolf913]

I would love it if those who are in Government just to spend 1 week in a nursery/day care centre to work with other staff with all the roles and responsibilities that is required on a daily basis for 5 days. It would be interesting to see how they would respond.

[@clairmcconchie7164]

Nz is struggling too. Between bullying etc more of us are leaving

[@secretprettyuser]

ABOUT TIME

[@msbramble176]

Bush kindy is my idea of early childhood education.

[@hsingh110]

Good, I hope they get it

[@ElenaSalomatova]

USA deserves this strike

[@tatianacarretero686]

About time the Australian government funds adequately public services: early childcare of course, but all of education and health related professions salaries must be urgently increased along with the ressources they need to do their job properly! Then watch how quickly people will want to do those jobs again and the private sector exposed for what it is: a money making machine that is incapable of offering the same services a well funded public sector could and at a lesser cost for the citizens who need them. Out with that neoliberal system that favorises private services and purposely underfunds the public ones so they fall apart.

[@georgepappas2917]

i beleive the government help those families now it is time thekindergardens to offer better wages to workers

[@Sistastrength]

Yes. Because what Biden gave your employer must sign for you to get it

[@lifeonmars478]

this is australia ...

[@AAAA-vu7fp]

Get rid of childcare centres.Kuds need the love of their mothers

[@msbramble176]

They need the love of community. Nuclear families don't work. They are better off in good quality childcare that isolated at home. Better still is close supportive local communities.

[@liyah918]

But kids also need clothes and food and a warm home which can’t be as easily provided as you think. Think before you speak.

[@AAAA-vu7fp]

@@liyah918 The warm clothes and a roof over the head can be provided by family and/or husband ,father of the kids for the few young years of a childs life. Mother should be looking after the child during developing years. What is the point of having kids if someone else will look after them?

[@jralberto23]

Stop the notion of the word childcare otherwise people won’t respect us. We are not childcare workers, we are teachers who studied 4 years to get the bachelor degree of teaching in ece. Enough is enough. I hate the word childcare. It’s Early Childhood education full stop

[@AAAA-vu7fp]

@@jralberto23 it does not matter what you call yourselves. A child needs a mother first and foremost in very young years. No stranger can take a mothers place.A child looks to mother for every need of theirvwellbeings and bonds in a loving family environment rather then cold sterile str aanger environment. To look after someones chi lld unless that child is an orphan and has no family is WRONG

[@brittanyfielder1092]

Strike gals strike 🪧!! Especially whilst I’m out of work lol