Star Tribune
Gov. Mark Dayton’s administration has responded to a federal lawsuit seeking to block unionization of certain in-home day providers with a court filing saying opponents lack standing to sue.
By Mark Mix, The Washington Times
Last month, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law a bill that designates home-based child care and personal care providers, many of whom are self-employed business owners, as state workers solely for the purpose of forcing them into union ranks.
By Anthony Riedel, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
A group of Minnesota home-based childcare providers have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new law that seeks to forcibly unionize the state’s home-based childcare providers.
By Joe Kimball, minnpost.com
Gov. Mark Dayton, as expected, has signed the Child Care Collective Bargaining Act, which will allow child care providers who accept state subsidies to vote to join a union.
By James Sherk, The Washington Times
Desperate times call for desperate measures, but the union movement has taken this saying to a new level. It has reacted to dwindling membership by unionizing recipients of public assistance. In more than a dozen states, unions now extract dues from government benefit checks.
ChildcareFreedom.org
Quietly and in private, Governor Dayton today signed SF778, the bill designed to unionize home-based childcare providers and transfer up to $8 million a year to AFSCME, a government employee union. That new revenue stream the unions are banking on comes at the expense of low-income families receiving government assistance to help pay for childcare.
kstp.com
The day care unionization bill is about to become law in Minnesota. But the battle over its impact is far from over. And now, opponents are warning that unionization could freeze some children out of certain day cares.
By Tom Scheck, Minnesota Public Radio
Those hoping the Legislature would increase the state’s minimum wage will be disappointed. That’s because DFLers in the Minnesota House and Senate couldn’t reach agreement on a new base wage.
By Mark Peters and Kris Maher, The Wall Street Journal
Minnesota is set to allow unions to organize workers who provide home day-care services and other home care, giving organized labor a rare victory at the state level.
Even though a survey conducted by the Minnesota Licensed Family Child Care Association showed 86 percent of family childcare providers in Minnesota oppose pending legislation that would force these workers to unionize; DFL State Senator Sandy Pappas has continued her push to payback Big Labor.