What HR leaders at public employers should watch before November's vote

Arizona voters will soon decide a measure that would ban teacher strikes and stop school districts from deducting union dues from paychecks.

The measure, House Concurrent Resolution 2040, cleared the Arizona Legislature as its 2026 session wrapped up in mid-June. It now heads to the November 3 general election ballot as a proposed change to the state constitution. If voters approve it, the measure applies for the period from and after December 31, 2027.

For HR and labor-relations leaders at public employers, the politics are a sideshow. The mechanics are the story. The resolution names school districts, but it rewrites how a public employer and a union deal with each other day to day.

Start with money and access. A district could not use public monies or public resources to support a union's operations. It could not deduct union dues from an employee's paycheck. It could not give a union access to internal communications systems to distribute recruiting information or political materials. It could not use facilities for captive-audience meetings to recruit members during working hours, including new-hire orientations. And it could not approve paid leave for an employee to conduct union business.

The bargaining piece reaches wider. Under the measure, the state or any of its political subdivisions could not negotiate an exclusive representation agreement, a collective bargaining agreement or a memorandum...

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