Child-care providers given right to unionize

Source: Statesman Journal

Child-care providers given right to unionize

June 12, 2007

Child-care providers who collect payments from the state won the permanent right to unionize.

The House voted 52-7 on Monday to enact Senate Bill 788-A, which grants collective-bargaining rights to child-care providers.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski issued an executive order in September 2005 that enabled the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 75 to represent certified and registered child-care providers. That came after more than 50 percent of those providers signed contracts authorizing AFSCME as their representative.

The governor inked a similar order in February 2006 to let Service Employees International Union Local 503 represent non-registered child-care providers who collect state payments. Those providers tend to have fewer children under their care.

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