Very few childcare workers across the country are organized, but NUHHCE has grown interested in the field as a possible livelihood for hospital workers whose jobs are being eliminated by managed care and mergers--but only if the wage scales rise.
In Pennsylvania NUHHCE ponied up resources for mailings and buses so that childcare parents and advocates can lobby state legislators; with the help of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, NUHHCE also chartered the United Childcare Union.