Proponents of the amendment have framed it as a right-to-work ban, but labor expert Mailee Smith, with the Illinois Policy Institute, said there is more to it. "The majority of this amendment has to do with giving unchecked control to government union leaders," Smith said. "Only a small portion of this amendment has anything to do with the right-to-work."
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.