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A report prepared by the LiUNA Local 506 takes aim at the lack of appropriate child care as a barrier to workers looking to pursue or sustain careers in the construction sector.

Titled Building Up Child Care for Workers in the Skilled Trades, the report highlights a number of factors that make skilled trades work in construction distinct, but which also create challenges to accessing child care. They include early start times, overtime requirements, unpredictable shift start and end times, regularly changing worksites with differing amounts of time needed to get to work, time-limited projects for multiple contractors, unexpected last-minute changes to work schedules, and periods off work in-between jobs.

The problem is further complicated by the fact that licensed child care is generally designed around a typical 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. workday.

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