Family Child Care Providers Seek Justice From the U.S. Supreme Court

Ashley Varner
September 27, 2019

Since 2015, the Freedom Foundation has worked with in-home childcare providers to establish in court that forced union representation is just as unconstitutional as forced union dues.

This lawsuit began working its way through the court system after the Supreme Court ruled in its 2014 decision, Harris v. Quinn, that “partial-public employees” like home-based caregivers and child care providers cannot be forced to pay union dues.

However, the decision did not permit providers to free themselves from unwanted union representation. Miller v. Inslee seeks to change that.

This summer, after the 9^th Circuit ruled in favor of unions and against the wishes of childcare providers, Freedom Foundation appealed to the Supreme Court. This video provides an overview.

- Labor, Washington

Ashley Varner

Vice President of Communication and Federal Affairs

Ashley Varner brings a variety of public affairs experience and a tough skin to the Freedom Foundation team. Prior to joining the Freedom Foundation, Ashley spent many exciting, turbulent and wonderful years as a media spokesperson and state government liaison at the National Rifle Association. Following her tenure at the NRA, Ashley joined the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where she worked with state and local lawmakers across the country on a diverse set of policy and communications issues. A grassroots activist from a young age, Ashley joined her first of many political campaigns before graduating high school and organized protests across the street from her own professors at the University of Missouri. When not rabble-rousing against Big Government, Ashley enjoys cooking, mafia movies, and has seen most of the 1970s and 80s classic rock bands still on tour. She loves the Chiefs, hopes someday she can love her Mizzou Tigers again, and she was a Kansas City Royals fan and Patriot Act opponent before either was cool.