Right-To-Work Amendment to Tennessee’s Constitution To Be Weighed by Voters, as House Moves To Protect Right To Organize

Volunteer State seeks to send a message to Washington.

AP/Mark Humphrey, file
The Tennessee governor, Bill Lee, at Nashville January 19, 2019. He is a supporter of the amendment effort. AP/Mark Humphrey, file

Tennessee voters will decide this November whether to add the state’s right-to-work statute to the state constitution, laying groundwork to resist a federal repeal effort. 

The amendment proposal follows the House of Representatives’ passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, a measure to repeal 27 states’ right-to-work laws, including Tennessee’s.

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