Mich. child care workers sue to break from union

My Way News - Mich. child care workers sue to break from union
"Peggy Mashke tends to 12 children for 12 hours a day at her home, so she was surprised to get a letter welcoming her to the United Auto Workers union.

'I thought it was a joke,' said Mashke, 50, of northern Michigan's Ogemaw County.
'I work out of my home.
I'm not an auto worker.
How can I become a member of the UAW?
I didn't get it.'

Willing or not, Mashke and 40,000 other at-home providers are members of a labor partnership that represents people across Michigan who watch children from low-income families.

Two unions receive 1.15 percent of the state subsidies granted to those providers, or more than $1 million a year."