This is the Kaderie Daily Podcast for Wednesday, June 1st, 2022.

I'm Caleb Brown.

In Illinois, a new ballot initiative would beef up the power of labor, allowing some labor agreements to override previous reforms, including

pension reform and even effectively veto acts of the state legislature.

Adam Schuster is Vice President for policy at the Illinois Policy Institute.

We talked about the strange and powerful provisions of what's known simply as Amendment

One.

Since the Janus decision in 2017, a lot of public sector unions have sort of flex their

muscle as much as they could to, I think, convert their political power that they had at that moment

into something more long term, like winning electoral contests that would give people the power of incumbency and maybe

get some state-level reforms that would blunt the effects of allowing people to simply walk

away from public sector unions.

Illinois has what's known as Amendment One that is coming up on the ballot.

What does that do?

So it's being sold as a workers rights amendment.

That's what the proponents are calling

at the workers rights amendment.

And they're also kind of hiding the main parts of it,

because if you ask them what it does, the first thing they'll tell you

is it's a constitutional ban on right to work.

Of course, Illinois is a state that does not currently have right to work,

but this would constitutionally ban private sector right to work but this would constitutionally ban

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