Michigan child care workers sue to get out of union

• 9/12/10, "Michigan child care workers sue to break from union," AP

"A small group of child-care providers in Michigan is in federal court suing to get out of a union that collects a share of their state subsidies.

• Peggy Mashke is one of them. The 50-year-old takes care of 12 children at her home in northern Michigan's Ogemaw County.
  

She says she thought it was "a joke" when she got a letter welcoming her

• to the United Auto Workers union.

The UAW and another union, AFSCME, formed a partnership called Child Care Providers Together Michigan, and it represents 40,000 at-home providers.

• Only 15 percent of providers cast ballots in 2006 but the new union was overwhelmingly approved....

The lawsuit is pending in federal court in Grand Rapids, Mich."

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