Stop Me Before I Vote Again

"the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division has published a proposed rules change that would bring 2 million domestic workers under minimum wage and overtime pay laws........ Long excluded from the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1974, home care workers may finally get the rights they deserve...The 1974 act in Congress was insufficient....it exempted from protection "babysitters and companions who are not regular bread-winners responsible for the support of their families....
The Supreme Court used that legal loophole to leave most home caregivers out in the legal cold,"
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http://www.peoplesworld.org/many-workers-to-benefit-in-2012-from-new-obama-rules/
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key caveat:

this is" a proposed rules change " not to be finalized for 60 days
and .looking at ohbummer admin SOP this is ikely to melt down some prior to implementation

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/opinion/fairness-for-home-care-aides.html

parallel ? ...perhaps recent changes in recognition process rules :

".. the National Labor Relations Board approved ...a final rule that will focus pre-election hearings
on issues relevant to determining if there is a question concerning representation, provide for pre-election briefing only when it will assist decision makers, reduce piecemeal appeals, consolidate requests for review of regional directors' pre and post-election determinations into a single, post-election request, make review of post-election determinations discretionary, and eliminate duplicative regulations,"

in less words" . "The final rule will allow the board to more promptly determine if there is a question concerning representation and, if so, to resolve it by conducting a secret ballot election and certifying the results."

not exactly the employee free choice ...and even this is a water down
"... The stronger version of the changes .. was thwarted by...."
hold your farts "... a big business-orchestrated campaign..".

one can only imagine the " big business-orchestrated campaign" attempts to cover
home care workers will face