News & Updates

Legislators Meet With MECEU Members

 
 

Rep. Liz Malia and Katherine Adam, a representative for Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, recently visited The Copper Beech Montessori School in Jamaica Plain to learn more about the MECEU campaign. They arrived to find the school full of people: educators from Copper Beech and other local centers, children and their parents, and members of the Boston Alliance for Early Education, all in attendance to meet the legislators and discuss early education.

MECEU State OC Votes!

On Saturday, March 31st, forty-one early childhood educators from across Massachusetts came together in Natick to discuss the important issues related to their profession. These activists are leaders in the Massachusetts Early Childhood Educators Union, AFTMA/MTA.

MECEU Activists in Action

 

Members of MECEU attended the Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council Legislative Breakfast to carry the message of quality early education to Western Mass legislators.

Retiring Columnist Honors Early Educators

 

In her last column retiring Boston Globe columnist Barbara F. Meltz reprinted her very respectful tribute to early educators. The Massachusetts legislature should follow Ms. Meltz's example by passing H1671, "An Act To Improve Quality In Early Education Care Centers". Click the link below to read her article.

"If you can't have the patience of a preschool teacher, you can at least have the same strategies"

"Early Childhood Educators Seek Union"

 

Early childhood educators in Massachusetts have moved one step closer to their goal of forming a union.

More great press about our union! Our allies at The Advocate, the newspaper of the Mass AFT, featured a terrific article about the MECEU on the front page. Click the link above to read more, then share it with your friends and co-workers.

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