ST. PAUL –Rep. Jenifer Loon (R-Eden Prairie), Deputy House Republican Leader, and Rep. Mary Franson (R-Alexandria), a former childcare provider, issued the following statements in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Harris v. Quinn.
“Today’s ruling is a welcome relief for Minnesota’s small business owners and hardworking families whose livelihoods were put in jeopardy by Governor Dayton and the Democrat-controlled legislature,” said Loon. “With the annual costs of childcare exceeding the average cost of in-state college tuition and fees, combined with the fact that Democrat legislators refused to give moms and dads with kids in daycare bigger tax refunds this year, Minnesota families simply cannot afford the additional strain that unionization would have imposed on their budgets.”
“The ruling from the Supreme Court today sends a clear signal to Governor Dayton and Democrats in the legislature that they must cease their reckless attempts to force independent childcare providers into a government union. Our children deserve better than to be pawns in a scheme to get more union dues out of hardworking parents” said Franson, a former childcare provider. “Minnesota parents and childcare providers can now breathe a sigh of relief knowing it's likely that their childcare will not be imperiled by the higher costs and reduced choices of forced unionization.”
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