Six days after the final vote was cast, a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing collective bargaining rights inched close enough to passage Monday that its supporters declared victory.
The Worker's Rights amendment puts the right of workers to unionize into the state constitution. It requires 60% of the vote to become law, and as of last count 59% have approved it.inched close enough to passage Monday that its supporters declared victory.But opponents insist it might take another three weeks to know which side has reason to pop the champagne corks.
The Associated Press has not yet called the race, but the news organization reported that with an estimated 99% of the votes counted, support for the amendment was at 58.1% compared to 41.8% in opposition.But the amendment has another pathway to success: winning a simple majority of all persons voting in the election.
"This is a historic amendment that protects the freedom for Illinois workers to come together and bargain collectively for things like higher wages, more safety protections on the job, better training," Jake Lewis, a spokesman for the workers’ right campaign, said. "And it will also protect Illinois workers from any anti-worker politician now or in the future who seeks to undercut those rights.
Matt Paprocki, president of the Illinois Policy Institute said in a statement that it’s clear the amendment failed to reach the 60% voter approval threshold.
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