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South of Market Childcare Center pushes for 100 percent membership and gets ready for contract negotiations |
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Members gear up for bargaining as President
Vangie Nocon swears in Khalida Anwar as a new
officer of Local 6361. |
It has been a busy summer at the South of Market Childcare Center as Local 6361 officers continued their push for 100 percent membership and the executive board began initial preparations for contract negotiations. To establish the parameters for bargaining, the union held early meetings with management and circulated a bargaining survey to determine member priorities.
Local 6361 is also central to the new campaign approach being launched by the Early Childhood Education Organizing Project in San Francisco. Guided by a four-part steering committee comprising the AFT, NEA, CFT, and United Educators of San Francisco, this effort is designed to create a multi-employer local by incorporating providers at other early childhood education centers into Local 6361. Ideally, this will allow for the local’s bargaining to model respectful and productive relationships between workers and management that workers at other centers in the city can then replicate.
Preliminary steps are already underway, including the circulation of a survey on healthcare needs and insurance status, as well as outreach to centers where concerns regarding inadequate funding, the need for a temp or sick pool, or lack of respect have previously been expressed.
“With this plan in place,” said Augustus Tagaro, secretary teasurer of Local 6361, “we now have a good chance to generate a multi-employer organization that will provide a real voice for early childhood education professionals in San Francisco.”
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