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).

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