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Organized labor is pushing to add worker-rights language to the Illinois Constitution and defeat proposed Tennessee restrictions, while other voters on Nov. 8 will have the chance to raise the minimum wage.
Voters in Tennessee, one of 27 states that ban compulsory union membership, are being asked to enshrine that prohibition in the state constitution to make it hard for future lawmakers to reverse that policy.
“The best way to ensure we remain a right-to-work state and protect worker freedoms for generations to come is to place it in the state constitution,” Tennessee Rep. Chris Todd (R) said at a March legislative hearing.
Illinois voters are being asked to do the opposite: to create a constitutional right to collectively bargain and to be represented by a union.
“There’s an assault on workers out there, and we want to say, ‘ Whoa, we not going to do that in Illinois’,” Illinois AFL-CIO President Tim Drea said in an interview.
Meanwhile, voters in Nebraska and Nevada will be asked if the state’s minimum wage should be increased.
In Illinois, voters will be asked whether to approve proposed Amendment 1.
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