By Mailee Smith, includes “… Specifically, Amendment 1 would place four distinct labor provisions in the Illinois constitution: 1) a ‘fundamental right’ to organize and bargain; 2) the right to bargain over wages, hours, working conditions, economic welfare and safety at work – i.e., virtually anything; 3) a prohibition forbidding lawmakers from ever interfering with, negating or diminishing those rights; and 4) a prohibition against right-to-work laws. Taken together, these provisions would give union leaders more power than state lawmakers. …”
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