CHICAGO (Nov. 10, 2015) – At a press conference scheduled for 10:45 a.m. this morning, attorneys with the Liberty Justice Center and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation will announce a lawsuit that has been filed by six Illinois child care providers and home caregivers seeking to remove the SEIU as their union representative.

Illinois law forces thousands of child care providers and home-based caregivers to be represented by the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, as a condition of providing care to people who receive subsidies from the government. Even though these caregivers no longer are forced to pay money to the SEIU, thanks to the 2014 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Harris v. Quinn, they still are forced to be represented by the union even if they do not want the union to speak for them. This lawsuit seeks to end that practice.

WHAT: Press conference announcing federal lawsuit against the SEIU and the state

WHEN: 10:45 a.m. TODAY, Tuesday, Nov. 10

WHERE: Dirksen Federal Building, 219 S. Dearborn St., Chicago

WHO: Jacob Huebert, senior attorney at the Liberty Justice Center

William Messenger, attorney with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

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The Liberty Justice Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public-interest law firm that specializes in protecting individual rights and enforcing limits on government power. Since its founding in 2011, the Liberty Justice Center has focused on cases related to protecting economic liberty, private property rights, free speech and other fundamental rights in Illinois and beyond. To learn more about the Liberty Justice Center, visit libertyjusticecenter.org.