 dhs finishes off forced unionization experiment in 2006 thengovernor jennifer granholm established the michigan home based child care council an agency that was set up to serve as the employer of 40000 home based day care providers in the state only a small percentage of those providers participated in a vote to unionize many providers didn t even know they had been unionized until they were notified by mail after the vote dhs director maura corrigan has pulled the plug on funding for the mhbccc which effectively ends the forced unionization of these homebased day care providers read the full story at  wwwmichigancapitolconfidentialcom 14689 10  