Unions Eyeing Family Child-Care Providers
Low pay, need for benefits viewed as major concerns for home-based operators.
An executive order by New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer last month granting family child-care providers the right to unionize is the latest sign of an aggressive push by organized labor to represent such workers, who care for small groups of children in the providers’ own homes.
Union representation has in recent years been authorized in seven other states, and efforts are under way to win that right in at least three other states. Unions already have signed contracts in Illinois, Oregon, and Washington.
In New York City, the United Federation of Teachers —an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers —already has filed cards signed by 12,000 providers with the State Employment Relations Board indicating they want the UFT to represent them. The board is expected to schedule an...
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