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	Podcast:		The Jefferson Exchange
	Episode:		California child care providers win key provisions in contract negotiations
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:11:50
	Publish Date:		2025-10-02 17:43:14
	Description:		( United Domestic Workers) Pamela Rocha is a member of the bargaining committee that won a union contract for 60,000 early educators across California. She joins the Exchange to discuss the details and outcomes. Pamela Rocha has been an in-home child care provider for 17 years and runs Rocha Family Daycare in Greenview, California. She is a United Domestic Workers (UDW) member and served on the bargaining committee for their recent contract with Child Care Providers United. Key provisions of the contract include: $37 million ongoing, per year in Cost-of-Living Adjustments $90 million one-time stabilization payments $80 million ongoing, per-year retirement funding $100 million ongoing, per-year health care funding $15 million ongoing, per-year for training and continuing education Ability to re-negotiate rate increases if the legislature allocates more money in future budgets A clearer timeline of reforming provider pay and a commitment to start paying providers at the start of the month to avoid continued issues with end-of-the-month payment delays, leaving providers putting bills on credit cards Continuing payment by the number of children enrolled in care instead of daily attendance numbers
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