Watching the documentary, 9 to 5: The Story of a Movement (premiered on PBS in 2021), I couldn’t help but be struck by the similarities between this story about U.S. secretaries organizing and that of the Worthy Wage movement for early childhood educators. Feeling invisible in both the women’s movement and the labor movement, child care providers created their own movement—just like the secretaries who founded the organization 9 to 5 in the 1970s, a struggle that inspired the 1980 film and Dolly Parton’s hit song of the same name. My initiation into the child care Worthy Wage movement was a Sunday brunch group of child care teachers sharing a meal around someone’s kitchen table.