About Us
When Michigan's child care providers made Child Care Providers Together
Michigan (CCPTM) official, one of our first acts was electing a
team of providers to represent us at the bargaining table.
Our bargaining committee comes from every corner of the state and includes relative providers as well as licensed and registered child care providers.
After holding our first-ever meeting with the Michigan Home-Based Child Care Council on April 17, 2007, we were finally able to speak out in a way that will produce some real results! Our goals still remain: to increase pay and benefits and to win new incentives so that providers can do their jobs better. We know that all of these things will benefit Michigan as a whole-improving child care and keeping experienced providers in the field. But there is much work to do, which is why we all must stay active and involved while we negotiate our first contract.
Get Active! Sign up for email updates by simply clicking on 'Contact Us' and type in your information and receive instant access to our newsletter, bargaining updates, and any alerts. Stay informed! The bargaining updates are now online and can be accessed by viewing our 'provider news' located to the left of this page. To contact members of the committee, call the CCPTM office at 1-888-867-8299.
CCPTM knows that our hard work is paying off and we look forward to continuously working as a team to ensure that providers get the necessary rights we deserve.
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Child Care Providers Together Michigan (CCPTM) is a union formed
by child care providers, AFSCME, and the UAW. CCPTM is working to
improve the quality of child care and child care work in Michigan
through unionization and collective negotiations. We are excited
to draw upon the reputation and power of two of Michigan’s
strongest unions. CCPTM’s mission is to:
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Gain collective bargaining rights for family day care homes,
group day care homes, relative care providers and day care aides
to ensure that they have a voice in the decisions that impact
them, while not affecting the parent/provider relationship;
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Encourage growth in licensed and registered home child care;
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Work with advocacy groups, employers, providers and all stakeholders
to find innovative solutions to Michigan’s child care
problems; and
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Use the strength of our numbers to lobby for the state funding
required to support high quality child care services.
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AFSCME represents over 1.4 million members and is the nation’s
largest child care union, representing 150,000 child care and early
childhood educators. AFSCME and affiliates are raising standards
among child care providers from New York to California. Among our
activities and accomplishments, we:
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Successfully lobbied for a child care reimbursement rate increase
in Ohio;
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Devised a “peer advocacy” program to assist our
members in meeting
licensing and other administrative requirements, while improving
communication with state, county and non-profit child care program
administrators and regulators;
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Together with advocates, fought and defeated hundreds of millions
of dollars in California state budget cuts;
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Lobbied the New York state legislature to defeat a Governor’s
proposal to allow counties to divert child care funds into other
services, resulting in a dedicated child care fund;
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Meet with legislators in family providers’ homes to show
the important work they do;
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Brought family providers to the state capitol to lobby for
quality child care;
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Raised funds to support CDA training for family child care
providers;
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Supported training in CPR, First Aid and Best Business Practices
to help family child care providers meet licensing requirements;
and
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Registered and mobilized thousands of family child care providers
to vote in the 2004 elections.
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The UAW has over 1.1 million active and retired members from diverse
industries. In addition to the automobile industry, UAW members
work in the public sector, in education and in health care workplaces.
With over 416,000 members in Michigan, the UAW is Michigan’s
largest union. The UAW currently represents over 14,000 members
from nine states (including Michigan), and Puerto Rico, who earn
their living working with children. UAW members are best known for
bargaining strong contracts and for standing up for social justice
for all people. Our child care advocacy efforts include:
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Bringing media attention to the “Worthy Wage Campaign”
by having top-ranking union officials work in child care settings;
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Lobbying to maintain child care licensing regulations when
a former Governor initiated activities to revoke licensing laws;
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Creating and implementing the UAW Child Development Specialist
Apprenticeship Program;
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Funding child care initiatives in the community by ensuring
that union-employer bargaining agreements contain language to
increase the availability of quality child care to serve the
needs of our members;
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Identifying locations at which community organizations may
deliver free or low-cost child care provider training;
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Developing and implementing multi-media parenting education
initiatives, to help parents, union leaders and corporate managers
understand the value and importance of quality child care;
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Offering scholarships and subsidies for child care providers
to become accredited and/or to attend conferences and workshops;
and
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Utilizing the services of child care advocacy groups to help
meet the child care needs of our members.
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