101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
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Introduced 1/27/2020, by Rep. Lance Yednock

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
ILCON Art. I, Sec. 25 new

    Proposes to amend the Bill of Rights Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that collective bargaining is fundamentally necessary to protect the economic welfare and safety of all workers in the public and private sectors. Provides that no law shall be passed that restricts or interferes with the ability of workers to join together and collectively bargain over wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment, including any law that prohibits or restricts the right of private sector employers and employees, through a representative of their own choosing, to enter into and administer union security agreements, should they choose. Effective upon being declared adopted.


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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

 
3    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
4HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
5SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the
6electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general
7election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of
8this resolution a proposition to amend the Illinois
9Constitution in Article I by adding Section 25 as follows:
 
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ARTICLE I
11
BILL OF RIGHTS

12    (ILCON Art. I, Sec. 25 new)
13SECTION 25. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FREEDOM
14    Collective bargaining is fundamentally necessary to
15protect the economic welfare and safety of all workers in the
16public and private sectors, and no law shall be passed that
17restricts or interferes with the ability of workers to join
18together and collectively bargain over wages, hours, and terms
19and conditions of employment, including any law that prohibits
20or restricts the right of private sector employers and
21employees, through a representative of their own choosing, to
22enter into and administer union security agreements, should
23they choose.
 

 

 

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SCHEDULE
2    This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being
3declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois
4Constitutional Amendment Act.