CARLA BECK’S TEAM STANDS WITH WORKERS IN SUPPORT OF AFFORDABLE CHILDCARE

As Flurry Of Sask. Party Backlash Emerges, Beck’s Team Launches ‘Write Your MLA, Minister and Premier’ Campaign
REGINA - Carla Beck’s team is standing with frontline workers and pledging to ramp up the fight for affordable childcare in Saskatchewan.

Joined by CUPE Saskatchewan President Kent Peterson, Early Learning & Childcare Shadow Minister Joan Pratchler launched a new website that allows people to send a message demanding affordable childcare to Scott Moe, Education Minister Everett Hindley and their local MLA with just a few clicks.

Pratchler said the site is just the first in a series of actions that Beck’s team and partners will take to fight for childcare in the weeks and months to come.

“We’ve been overwhelmed with messages wanting to fight back and add their voices to save childcare in Saskatchewan — they’re asking how us to get involved and we’re giving them an avenue to do just that,” Pratchler said. “Affordable childcare is critical to Saskatchewan’s future, and my message to Scott Moe and his Minister Everett Hindley is this — we will not stop. This fight isn’t over. In fact, we’re just getting started.”

The campaign comes as families and childcare providers across Saskatchewan continue to raise dire concerns that a new funding model, introduced last Wednesday, is eliminating part-time and casual childcare spaces, increasing costs for many parents, and threatening the financial sustainability of childcare centres across Saskatchewan.

Healthcare workers, first responders, construction workers, retail employees, and thousands of other shift workers rely on part-time and casual childcare to remain in the workforce. Childcare providers have warned that the changes could force many centres to reduce services or close altogether, making access even more difficult for Saskatchewan families.

"Our members work in childcare centres every day,” Peterson said. “They see the shortages, the waitlist, the staffing challenges, and the parents desperately trying to find care so they can get to work.

“And they know the answer is not to cut supports from a system that's already under strain. Yet that's exactly what this government has chosen to do.

“Saskatchewan families deserve better than this. They deserve a government that's focused on expanding childcare, not shrinking it. They deserve a government that's listening to workers and providers instead of ignoring them.”

Pratchler added, “These decisions are shortsighted and have the potential to ruin whole communities in Saskatchewan. We can’t let this stand — it’s time for change.”

People can send a message to Minister Everett Hindley here.

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