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Saturday, April 27
Not so. The Service Employees International Union Local 880 has succeded in signing up 50,000 home-based childcare workers. Essentially these are people who get paid by the state to take care of kids in their home. Unless they're licensed, they get less than $9.50 A DAY to take care of each kid in their home. They don't have health insurance, and they don't get paid in any timely manner either. This major success may help other the SEIU create unions in other states. And some of the credit for this goes to Chicago blogger and a GB staffer.