Hundreds of child care providers rallied outside New York Gov. George Pataki's Midtown office yesterday to urge the governor to sign legislation allowing them to join a union and to negotiate with the state. Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, said the effort to sign up the day care workers was the union's biggest organizing campaign since the late 1960's, when it helped to unionize paraprofessionals.
See "Workers Push Pataki for Unions in Day Care", Toni Whitt, The New York Times, May 25, 2006