Worthy Wage Day 2016

Looking back on this year’s blog series

Our Worthy Wage Day blog series is in its third year now, and 2016 might have been our best year yet!

We kicked off our week with a post from Pittsburgh preK teacher and early childhood member organizer Tabitha Geramita about her struggle for worthy wages, and what she’s doing to improve the early childhood landscape in Pittsburgh.

We went back to the future with NAEYC Executive Director Rhian Evans Allvin, imagining what early childhood education will look like in 2026.

We heard from Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge about the kind of teacher appreciation early childhood educators deserve.

We got an update from former kindergarten teacher and current Cincinnati Federation of Teachers President Julie Sellers about the early childhood education landscape in Cincinnati.

We learned from Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers President Nina Esposito-Visgitis about member organizing strategies in the early learning and child care workforce.

We got a history lesson on the Worthy Wages movement from Marcy Whitebook and Lea Austin, of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.

And we finished off the week with a dispatch from United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew on the struggle of in-home child care providers in New York City.

Thanks to all of our contributors for shining a light on the need for Worthy Wages in the early learning and child care professions. We’ll be back on May 1 of 2017, with new victories to report and new challenges to tackle.