With 69.7% of Volunteer State voters supporting Question One in the 2022 midterm elections, Right-to-Work is now enshrined in the Tennessee Constitution. Right-to-Work, a law protecting workers from being forced to join and pay dues to a union as a condition of employment, has been on the books as statute in Tennessee since 1947.

By putting this worker safeguard in the state constitution, Tennessee voters have raised the bar for its repeal moving forward. In the same week Tennessee voters constitutionally protected their Right-to-Work law, events in Michigan, one of the 27 other Right-to-Work states, demonstrated why lawmakers elsewhere may seek to follow Tennessee’s lead.

To those covering and following the Michigan gubernatorial race, it wasn’t a surprise that Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) won reelection. What did shock many was the fact that Whitmer won with an 11 percentage point margin and that Democrats also won control of both chambers of the Michigan Legislature for the first time in nearly 40 years.

It didn’t take long for Michigan Democrats to announce that repealing Right-to-Work will be among the top priorities when they assume control of state government in January. The morning after the election Michigan Senator Dayna Polehanki (D) proclaimed that Right-to-work “is gonna go bye-bye” under the new Democratic-led Michigan Legislature.

Governor Whitmer has touted repeal of Right-to-Work as a top policy goal since her initial run for governor in 2018. Earlier...

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