Parents who depend on the Simon Fraser University child-care society rallied outside the university's Burnaby campus Monday.

The rally showed support for 67 unionized child-care workers, who have been on strike since Sept. 17, inconveniencing more than 260 families who use the society's daycare services.

Wages and funding remain the main issues on the table, B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union representative Chris Mullen said.

"The fees that parents pay for child-care spaces will never be able to pay a decent living wage to professional early childhood educators with post-secondary education and the responsibility that they have," Mullen said, adding that the provincial and federal governments have cut funding and that wages haven't kept pace with inflation.

Workers have said they want pensions and higher wages, while management says the society will have to raise fees or go bankrupt to meet workers' demands….

Society director Pat Frouws said she's asked the provincial government and SFU for emergency funding to start the programs up again. The society is also considering raising fees or meeting the union's needs temporarily and going bankrupt, she said.

Last year, senior governments announced cuts to child-care funding.