Senate President Karen Spilka plans to announce Thursday an early education and childcare proposal during a tour of a childcare center in Malden, according to an event advisory.

Spilka and Sen. Jason Lewis, who co-chairs the Legislature’s Education Committee, are scheduled to tour the Action for Boston Community Development childcare center in Malden alongside ABCD CEO Amy O’Leary, the advisory said.

Spilka and Lewis will announce during the visit the Senate’s “next steps to transform Massachusetts’ early education and care system. They will be joined by several Senators, including members of the Joint Committee on Education,” the advisory said.

“The Senate President and members will hold a press conference and take questions from members of the media, followed by a tour of the facility that is open to press,” the advisory said.

— Chris Van Buskirk

Museum workers strike at Mass MoCA

Unionized workers at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art went on strike Wednesday after no agreement was reached with the museum on wages.

Carrying signs such as “Living Artists Living Wages” and “Our Power is in Our Unity,” the workers picketed outside of the North Adams museum, commonly referred to as MASS MoCA.

The employees’ union is part of United Auto Workers Local 2110 and represents about 120 full- and part-time workers, including curators, educators, administrative staff, custodians, employees in visitor services and others.

In 2022, workers went on a one-day strike. An agreement was reached on a first contract that allowed them to reopen the agreement in October 2023 to negotiate further wage increases. Negotiations on the wage reopener have been ongoing for four months but no agreement has been reached, the union said.