Background
Weeks of phone and text banks, TV and radio advertisements, thousands of door-to-door campaigners, as well as strong pro-labor lobbying resulted in the recent passage of the Illinois Workers’ Rights Amendment. On November 8, 2022, the Workers’ Rights Amendment (also known as Section 25 of Article I) passed with 58 percent (2.1 million) of Illinois votes. Upon its certification, the Illinois Constitution will now include the following language:
“Employees shall have the fundamental right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing for the purpose of negotiating wages, hours, and working conditions, and to protect their economic welfare and safety at work. No law shall be passed that interferes with, negates, or diminishes the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively over their wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment and work place safety, including any law or ordinance that prohibits the execution or application of agreements between employers and labor organizations that represent employees requiring membership in an organization as a condition of employment…”
What The Workers’ Rights Amendment Does
The Amendment largely tracks Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which applies to most private sector (including non-profit) employers nationally, in terms of protecting employees’ right to organize and bargain collectively regarding wages, hours and other conditions of...
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