Minnesota Home Healthcare workers are permitted to unionize. While this ruling does not have much impact for most of our readers, the backstory should resonate with you. Minnesota passed a law that allowed collective bargaining for home care providers for Medicaid recipients. The 2013 law called the Individual Providers of Direct Support Services Representation Act…

The typical union worker now is more likely to be an educator, office worker, or food or service industry employee rather than a construction worker, autoworker, or electrical mechanic. Until recently, the unionization rate was far higher in the private sector than in the public sector. “The basic structure of the labor union movement has…