Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s the latest edition of the Working People Weekly List.

Tennessee’s Right-to-Work (for Less) Amendment—Don’t Settle for Less: “A ‘misnomer’ is a wrong or inaccurate name, term or designation. ‘Morning sickness’ is a misnomer because feelings of nausea can hit women day or night. Another example is Tennessee's constitutional Amendment 1—the Right-to-Work amendment. It more accurately should be called the ‘Muzzling of Workers and Right-to-Work for Less Amendment.’ Like morning sickness, it's nauseating. Here's why: We live in a time of rising income inequality, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Furthermore, inflation is at a near 40-year high, with many working families struggling to pay bills. The minimum wage in the Volunteer State is $7.25 an hour, half the living wage in a place like Nashville. Meanwhile, CEOs of large companies make 340 times the wages of a frontline worker, a pay gap of 340:1. Despite this imbalance, some of our so-called state leaders have decided that now is the time to not only limit the little leverage workers have, but to enshrine this injustice in the Tennessee Constitution.”

What to Know About: The Amendment to Make Illinois Union Friendlier: “‘Bruce Rauner had a war on unions,’ says Tim Drea, president of the Illinois AFL-CIO. ‘It was quite the wake-up call. We had also seen in Wisconsin, a progressive state that led...

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