A rising trend in the number of home healthcare workers has prompted union organizing efforts. By 2020, the number of personal-care aides is expected to reach 3.2 million, more than doubling the number of workers from 2010. While taking on such tasks as bathing, dressing and feeding the elderly and people with disabilities, home-care aides usually receive modest compensation and limited benefits. Facing Republican opposition that regards home-care workers as independent contractors, unions and many Democratic lawmakers argue that workers receiving public funds are eligible to unionize.
See "Unions target home workers", Kris Maher, The Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2013