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Workers Join AFSCME, Machinists and IUE-CWA in Recent Campaigns |
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Some 2,600 family child care providers in New Mexico recently voted to join Child Care Providers Together (CCPT)/New Mexico, an AFSCME affiliate. Meanwhile, aerospace workers in Georgia voted for Machinists (IAM) representation and car rental workers in Boston chose IUE-CWA.
In New Mexico, the child care workers—who care for children whose parents are eligible for state child care assistance—topped off their three-year fight for a voice at work last week when their vote to join CCPT was certified.
In April, Gov. Bill Richardson (D) signed legislation the workers had fought for since 2006 to win the right to join a union to improve their lives and the quality of home child care services in the state.
State-licensed provider Nancy Mosier and her husband, Michael, found time to build their union—even while they operated a center for 12 children in Raton, a small city in northeast New Mexico. Nancy says they wanted to help organize providers because they deserve to be treated with respect, like state employees.
Once approached to join the union, she says, “We were interested immediately.”
We wanted the right to speak out on what we need as professional day care providers.
AFSCME Council 18 President Andrew Padilla says the workers will gain more access to training and be able to provide a better quality of child care.
In Boston, 60 workers at Budget car rental at Logan Airport overcame management’s anti-union campaign last month and voted to join IUE-CWA Local 81201.
Organizers say the workers successfully countered management’s efforts to divide them, including forcing Budget management to cut short many of its captive audience meetings because the workers kept taking them over.
At Fort Stewart in Hinesville, Ga., 29 workers employed by Lockheed Martin and 38 workers at Fed Services Inc., voted by nearly 10-to-1 to join the IAM.
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