United Voice News
UTS Child Care workers say 'yes'!
Some 92% of childcare workers at UTS Child Care centres have today voted 'yes' to a new deal that gives them better working conditions and more work/life balance.
The deal gives them pay rises of 5%, 4% and 4% a year over three years. And to improved work/life balance, workers have won nine weeks’ paid maternity leave. Childcare workers will also be given more programming time under the new deal.
LHMU NSW branch assistant secretary Mel Gatfield congratulated the workers on a fantastic win. Last year, the LHMU launched the BIG STEPS in Childcare campaign calling for better wages, training and programming time for childcare workers. And this win at UTS Child Care is a step in the right direction, Mel says. ‘The UTS Child Care agreement is a landmark deal that provides childcare workers at all three centres with programming time based on the number of children in a group.’
The deal now goes to the Workplace Authority for approval and will not start operating until then.
See also ‘New UTS Child Care deal “the best one”’.
