By Doug Cunningham

New York City's United Federation of Teachers is joining forces with ACORN and New York State United Teachers to launch the biggest union organizing drive in New York in decades. It's an effort to unionize 52,000 home day care providers throughout New York state. UFT President President Randi Weingarten.

[Randi Weingarten] : "This is a really important campaign to not just organize the unorganized but to take a group of workers who provide an essential service to our youngest children, help make that service better and give the workers a better piece of the economic pie."

Many of these home day care workers are poorly paid and have no health or pension benefits. They're paid with government funds. If this organizing drive succeeds, New York will be the second state where home day care workers are unionized. Illinois was the first. A recent ACORN study found the average wage for these workers in New York City is less than $20,000 a year.