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The Chief-Leader/Michel Friang
A get-out-the-vote
rally at the Alhambra Ballroom in Harlem last week drew 600 of
the 28,000 family day-care providers who will begin receiving
union ballots in the mail this month. The United Federation of
Teachers teamed up with the community group ACORN and launched
the unionizing effort two years ago. In May, Governor Spitzer
signed an executive order giving the day-care providers the
right to organize. The providers are not state workers, but
the parents of the children they care for receive
government-subsidized child care. If successful, the drive
would corral the largest group of public-sector workers to
join a union since the 1960s. Ballots are due back on Oct. 18.
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