What’s Unique About Unionizing Child Care Workers?
What makes this unionization movement unusual, the report explains, is that home-based child care providers are not in traditional employer-employee relationships. Most are self-employed and care for a small number of children in their own homes. This means that home-based providers are not covered by existing labor laws, and unions have had to advocate for new laws to organize these providers. The common thread among home-based providers that have unionized or currently are pursuing authorization is that they receive a state subsidy to care for low-income children and/or are regulated by the state. It is this connection that allows the state to serve as an “employer of record” with whom a union representing providers can negotiate. This strategy is modeled after unions’ successful campaigns to organize home health care workers. Across the country, several unions have been involved in organizing home-based child care providers, but the American Federation of State, County, and Municipa
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