Missouri Collective Bargaining Agreements Initiative (2020)
| Missouri Collective Bargaining Agreements Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Labor and unions | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Missouri Collective Bargaining Agreements Initiative was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
Mike Louis, president of the Missouri AFL-CIO, filed four versions of the 2020 ballot initiative.[1] In 2017, Louis filed the veto referendum Proposition A, which repealed the state's right-to-work law in 2018.
The ballot initiative would have added language to the Missouri Constitution prohibiting the state and political subdivisions from restricting, impairing, or limiting collective bargaining agreements.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full texts of the ballot initiative filings are available here:[1]
Campaign finance
| Total campaign contributions: | |
| Support: | $18,455.50 |
| Opposition: | $0.00 |
There was one political action committee, We Are Missouri, registered to support the measure. As of January 15, 2020, the committee had raised $18,455.50.[2]
Support
The following table includes contribution and expenditure totals for the committee in support of the measure:[2]
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Path to the ballot
Process in Missouri
In Missouri, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 8 percent of the votes cast for governor in the previous gubernatorial election in six of the eight state congressional districts. Signatures must be filed with the secretary of state six months prior to the election.
The requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: The smallest possible requirement was 160,199 valid signatures. The actual requirement depends on the congressional districts in which signatures were collected.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was May 3, 2020.
Once the signatures have been filed with the secretary of state, the secretary copies the petition sheets and transmits them to county election authorities for verification. The secretary of state may choose whether the signatures are to be verified by a 5 percent random sample or full verification. If the random sampling projects between 90 percent and 110 percent of required signatures, a full check of all signatures is required. If more than 110 percent, the initiative is certified, and, if less than 90 percent, the initiative fails.
Stages of this initiative
Mike Louis, president of the Missouri AFL-CIO, filed four versions of the ballot initiative on December 6, 2018. On January 18, 2019, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) approved each of the versions for signature gathering. Petitioners did not submit signatures by the May 3 deadline.[1]
See also
Footnotes
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