The controversial law, passed earlier this year, would allow local union AFSCME to organize an election to try and unionize the state's 12,000-some home daycare providers. While AFSCME is continuing to organize for that election, the vote cannot happen until the injunction is lifted. That could come with a ruling from either the 8th Circuit Court on the Minnesota case or the U.S. Supreme Court on the Illinois case -- whichever comes first.

No bill has faced a more tortuous path this legislative session than a proposal to allow child care workers and personal care assistants to unionize.

Jean Rogers is a 58-year-old resident of the White Earth reservation in northwestern Minnesota. Since 2005 she has taken care of her 88-year-old mother, who suffers from dementia. Last year her mother fell and broke her hip and now requires a walker to move about the house.