Daycare unions? Other states offer clues about what to expect
Politics Catharine Richert · · House Commerce and Regulatory
Reform Committee  When day care provider Sue Winn was first
approached about joining a union, she was skeptical.  "We didn't
know if they were going to come in and force us to do things
that we didn't want to do, whether the dues were going to be
really high," said Winn, who takes care of kids in her home
north of Seattle, Washington.  But eventually, Winn came around.
"We set our own dues, we make our own decisions," she said. "But
we have the support of paid union workers who have lobbying
powers, we have numbers. It's given us a whole lot of power we
didn't have before."  Winn could be any one of the providers in
Minnesota who have found themselves at the center of a battle
over whether to unionize. It's a debate that has pitted the
state's executive branch against the courts, Republicans in the
Legislature against DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and the unions against
some of the very workers