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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Tina Sfondeles

Workers’ rights amendment wins place in Illinois Constitution

Striking Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 73 members and their supporters rally at the Thompson Center in 2019. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file)

SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Constitution is getting a new amendment, one that guarantees workers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain for wages and other employment issues.

The Associated Press on Tuesday projected the labor union-backed amendment passed by achieving a simple majority of all votes cast across the state last week, one of two roads to passage.

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