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Unionizing Home-Based Providers to Help Address the Child Care Crisis

As children grow and develop, child care workers play a vital role in fostering learning and providing support in a safe and nurturing environment. High-quality child care jobs, where workers are valued and respected, benefit both workers and the children and families they serve. Unfortunately, the United States has historically undervalued the child care workforce and failed to foster healthy labor conditions in this industry. In addition to more federal and state investments, strong unions for child care workers are part of the solution.  

Unionization of home-based providers is a necessary counter to our nation’s historical underinvestment—when compared to the overall workforce—in jobs performed disproportionately by women, immigrants, and people of color. To win much-needed structural change and large-scale investment in the child care industry will require a shift in power and the mass organizing of child care workers. Union power is a key part of that equation.  

This brief walks through the history and current landscape of the child care workforce, including which states have union policies for home-based child care providers, who fall outside the traditional employer-employee bargaining model and lack a mechanism for collectively organizing and advocating for themselves. It also outlines and shares successes from across the nation about how policies benefit workers, families, and the economy. State policymakers, child care advocates, and labor leaders can use these lessons to develop similar collective bargaining rights for these vital workers.     

For any questions, please contact Christian Collins at [email protected] or Alejandra Londono-Gomez at [email protected].

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