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Posted by: Kate Prince on Aug 4, 2021

Former Gov. Bill Haslam has announced he will serve as treasurer of the Yes on 1 Committee, a campaign promoting the right to work amendment that will appear on the November 2022 ballot, the Associated Press reports. The amendment would place the state law that prohibits a company and a union from requiring workers to pay union dues or fees into the state Constitution. The law was enacted in 1947, but Republican lawmakers have completed the lengthy process to place it on the ballot as a constitutional amendment. The Yes on 1 Committee says the law would be harder to repeal if it were a constitutional amendment, but opponents say the measure discourages workers from joining unions in a state where unions already have very little foothold.