Early childhood educators rally in Halifax to demand living wage
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NDP leader Claudia Chender spoke to the crowd. She recalled meeting with many of the ECEs in the crowd back in 2017 when she was running to be MLA for Dartmouth South. Chender recalled that back then she met with ECEs who told her stories about how they couldn’t make ends meet. Chender said she talked with ECEs again in 2018 with the announcement of the pre-primary program that created wage disparities between those workers and ECEs.
“When I decided to run for office, I had three children in regulated child care. And if had not had access to that, I would not be here today, no question. While we are happy about the expansion of regulated child care, and the affordability that goes along with it, none of that can happen until ECEs are properly compensated.”
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