Public unions already dominate authorities in Illinois, and Democratic lawmakers now wish to amend the structure to entrench that energy and block reforms. These are the stakes of Modification 1, which is able to seem on the November poll.

Democratic supermajorities within the state Home and Senate voted final 12 months to place the measure earlier than voters. Modification 1 would change the Illinois Structure to learn that “workers shall have the basic proper to arrange and to cut price collectively by way of representatives of their very own selecting for the aim of negotiating wages, hours, and dealing situations, and to guard their financial welfare and security at work.”