A team effort: Voters will decide whether to enshrine workers’ rights in the state constitution on November 8. | aarondgettinger 👇
Credit:Aaron Gyrion lives a comfortable life on the southwest side. The 32-year-old Garfield Ridge homeowner makes enough as a heavy equipment operator at the Department of Water Management to support a family of four on his income alone. He changes out sewer pipes and fixes issues with the municipal plumbing.
Gyrion has been following the only statewide referendum on the November 8 ballot religiously. Illinoisans are being asked whether they want to amend the state constitution to establish a right to labor unionization and collective bargaining. That would prevent Illinois from enacting a so-called right-to-work law, which allows private sector workers to avoid paying dues if they refuse to join a union at their workplace, even if they enjoy benefits secured by the union.
Union membership over the past decade is higher in Illinois and in Chicagoland than it is nationally , according to a recent study by the pro-union Illinois Economic Policy Institute and the Project for Middle Class Renewal at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Maisch also worries about “working conditions” being ill-defined. Over decades, “enterprising unions and their attorneys are going to try to expand the heck out of [working conditions],” he said.
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