(WBBM NEWSRADIO) - An analysis of last November's election finds support for the Workers' Rights Amendment to the state constitution came from an area you might not expect.
The amendment passed with more than 58% support among those who voted on the question.
The Project for Middle Class Renewal at the University of Illinois and the Illinois Economic Policy Institute dug into those numbers and found it did well among rural Republican-leaning districts.
“While the amendment did not get, in most cases, a majority vote, it outperformed Governor Pritzker,” Labor Professor Robert Bruno said.
Bruno noted that it received 151,000 more votes downstate than Pritzker.
As co-author of the study, Bruno said that shows split-ticket voting is still alive and there are issues that rise above party.
“Benefits that accrue through work, the importance of work to communities really does speak to all political voters,” said Bruno.
Bruno sees the success of the amendment as well as more organizing efforts at Starbucks and the Art Institute of Chicago as signs of labor's growing power.
“Workers want to have some control over their working life,” Bruno said.
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