Early Learning Professional? Get to Know Your Union
SEIU Local 500 Vice President of Early Learning: Madie Green
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Montgomery College Professor Talks About The 99%
Jerrold Keilson, part time professor at AU and union supporter
Early Learning
SEIU Local 500 represents more than 6,500 early learning professions. Where we work: Across the state of Maryland & at Head Start centers in Maryland and Washington, DC What we do: As family child care providers, we care for and educate Maryland’s children while their parents work or go to school. We also work in Head Start centers providing high quality early education.
Visit our Early Learning Member Resources page to find out about some of the programs, training and other resources available.
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Online Training Opportunities for Child Care Providers
H&H Child Care Training Center is an approved Maryland State Department of Education Center which provides both 90 Hour Pre-Service Training as required by MSDE as well as non-credit sessions for child care providers and parents of young children.
SEIU Letter in Support of Early Childhood Programs
SEIU Executive Vice-President Eileen Kirlin sent a letter to the President Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, and to his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan. The letter expressed SEIU’s strong support for grants aimed at improving early …
SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry at Local 500 Vision & Action Conference [Video]
On Saturday, October 22, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry spoke to Local 500 members at the Inaugural Vision and Action Conference. After she finished speaking, Local 500 members engaged in an open conversation with her about the issues that matter …
Who We Are
Decades ago a small group of support service employees in the Montgomery County Public Schools had a vision of uniting all support staff to empower a workforce to believe there were entitled to decent wages, benefits, and rights. Along with …
Meeting First Lady Michelle Obama
My name is Fabiola Silva and I’m a Child Care Provider in the Germantown Montgomery County area, early one morning, I received a telephone call from SEIU Local 500 my union, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
Annapolis Update: 3/7/2011
The legislative session got off to a slow start this year, which is normally the case in post-election sessions with newly elected legislators getting acclimated and committee assignments being shifted. Now, at the mid-point, the heat is on — with preventing child care subsidy cuts and pension changes at the top of Local 500′s agenda.
Budget Shortfall Threatens Child Care Subsidy Program
The Maryland Department of Education is preparing to put a wait list in place for all new applicants to Maryland’s child care voucher program. SEIU Local 500 is working with our allies and members of the state legislature to find …