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Key goals for his campaign include strengthening public school funding, improving housing access through mechanisms like rent control and empowering workers by repealing Kentucky's right-to-work law and restoring prevailing wage.
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Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Feb. 2026
In right-to-work states, workers can choose to join a union and pay a membership fee, but joining a union is not a condition of employment.
—Charlotte Observer, 10 Dec. 2025
As a result, right-to-work laws weaken unions’ ability to negotiate better working conditions and reduce the share of workers who belong to unions.
—Kelly Chen, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
The campaign faces a tight deadline, but veto referendums have been successful in Missouri as recently as 2017, when labor unions successfully organized to defeat a right-to-work law that would have banned compulsory union fees.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
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Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Feb. 2026
In right-to-work states, workers can choose to join a union and pay a membership fee, but joining a union is not a condition of employment.
—Charlotte Observer, 10 Dec. 2025
As a result, right-to-work laws weaken unions’ ability to negotiate better working conditions and reduce the share of workers who belong to unions.
—Kelly Chen, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
The campaign faces a tight deadline, but veto referendums have been successful in Missouri as recently as 2017, when labor unions successfully organized to defeat a right-to-work law that would have banned compulsory union fees.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Right-to-work.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/right-to-work. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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