Childcare workers to strike on 7 September as union says sector needs serious overhaul

Hundreds of childcare centres to shut on Early Childhood Educators Day as workers call for better conditions and wages

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The new Labor government will fail in its attempts to make early childhood education more accessible and more affordable without a serious overhaul of the sector's conditions and wages, the United Workers' Union has warned.

Educators voted on Wednesday to take strike action on 7 September - Early Childhood Educators Day - to highlight the issues and stress that workers within the sector have been experiencing after more than a decade of inaction".

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