(Wichita, KS) - Nearly one hundred child care providers and many members of their families gathered on August 16 & 17 to hold a founding convention for statewide local union, Child Care Providers Together (CCPT). The convention was the culmination of twenty months of intensive outreach and organizing by child care providers in all corners of the state of Kansas. Providers began banding together in January 2007 to speak with a common, powerful voice.
Delegates to the founding convention achieved a number of important milestones, including the adoption of a local union constitution and the nomination of officers and trustees for the local union.
In addition to doing important business related to their local union's founding, the child care providers present also participated in a variety of training workshops and took part in convention-wide discussions about the way forward. Workshop topics included training on communication tools for local unions, political and legislative advocacy and models for building an effective representational union.
Kansas CCPT, having provided the basis for a new AFSCME local union with its founding convention, will continue to expand as child care providers around the state build their own power.
Learn more about Kansas Child Care Providers Together here.
