Home-based child care providers, takes care of children with few working benefits. However, 40,000 child care providers in Detroit are trying to change that with joining the United Auto Workers and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the new group called Child Care Providers Together Michigan "brought together workers registered with the Michigan Department of Human Services to receive government subsidies for taking care of children from low-income families."
Jozette Dowdell, a licensed child care provider and AFSCME union organizer, expressed "how important it is that the state and the community understand what a day in the life of day care providers is really like and what the needs are for child care providers." Dowdell emphasized that what child care providers deserve and that they are looking forward to a better relationship with the state and with the newly re-elected Governor Jennifer M. Granholm. Dowdell believes this will occur "with the help from the first contract that child care providers will receive [from being unionized]."
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