Title: Authorizes Child Care Workers to Form Labor Organizations
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that authorizes child care workers to collectively bargain.
Highlights:
Authorizes family child care providers to form labor organizations (Sec. 2).
Defines “family child care provider” as an individual who provides child care services for low-income and at risk children who receives payments from the state for such services based on a rate structure for voucher and contracted payments (Sec. 2).
Authorizes labor organizations to bargain on behalf of family child care providers on issues including, but not limited to, the following (Sec. 2):
Rate structures for voucher and contracted payments for child care services;
Education and training opportunities for family child care providers;
Recruitment and retention of family child care providers; and
Reimbursement and payment procedures.
Prohibits family child care providers from striking or encouraging a strike (Sec. 2).