(6,000) Home-Based Child Care Workers Vote To Unionize

[Omaha Steve]

Source: WBALTV

BALTIMORE -- Nearly 6,000 home-based child-care providers in Maryland voted to unionize, saying it will give needed training and provide better reimbursement rates.

Organized by the Service Employees International Union, ballots were counted by the American Arbitration Association. Seventy-five percent of state child care workers voted to join the union.

The union effort started nearly three years ago, but the move gained urgency this year when Maryland paid some child care providers late.

Maryland pays child care workers to take care of children of low-income working families and those coming off welfare. State education officials said about $10 million is paid out to providers every six weeks.

Read more: http://www.wbaltv.com/news/14207858/detail.html

[pattmarty]

1. Good for them!!!

[blondeatlast]

2. Union: YES! Excellent news--and no one deserves union protection more. nt