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2026 ELECTION RESEARCH · VT

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STATEWIDE3Question

Constitutional protection for collective bargaining

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The fields listed below were checked against the linked sources on October 21, 2026. Future outcomes, final contract awards and individual tax bills are not established by this review.

Checked: Title, Summary, Yes vote, No vote, Beneficiaries, Fiscal estimate, Tradeoffs, Named organizations.

Unknown: Final outcomes, future contract awards and your individual tax bill are not established by a ballot authorization.

Vermont Legislature: official publication of both 2026 constitutional amendmentsVermont Secretary of State 2026 voter guide, Addison edition

Adds a constitutional right for employees to organize and bargain collectively over pay, hours, working conditions and workplace safety. It would also bar state laws prohibiting agreements that require labor-organization membership as a condition of employment.

YES

Adds the protection to Vermont’s Constitution. A majority of votes on the proposal is required.

NO

Leaves the Constitution unchanged; existing labor statutes still apply.

Who benefits or is affected

Employees and labor organizations would receive the proposed constitutional protections for organizing, bargaining and membership agreements. The amendment does not appropriate money to a named union, employer or worker.

Costs and tradeoffs

No bond, tax rate or individual payment is authorized. Future wage, benefit, employer-compliance or public-budget effects depend on bargaining and court decisions; no verified per-voter amount is available.

The amendment would place the rights in the Constitution and prohibit state laws barring agreements that require labor-organization membership as a condition of employment. That membership-agreement provision is part of the same vote. The text authorizes no funding amount and supplies no quantified future budget effect.

Organizations named in the records

Recipient names: unknown. No separately verified allocation or contract-award list is recorded for this question. This does not mean no recipients exist.

Published party positions

Democratic Party
YES

Vermont Democratic Party

The currently published party platform explicitly supports passage of Proposal 3, the Worker Rights Amendment. This is a platform position adopted in 2024, not evidence of a newly issued 2026 formal ballot endorsement.

Published 2024-08-17 · Source checked 2026-10-21

Vermont Democratic Party platform
Republican Party

Unknown — no verified statement is recorded for this question.

A position applies to the named organization, not every party member. Missing evidence does not establish neutrality. We do not infer a party’s position from its ideology or a legislator’s vote.

Vermont Legislature: official publication of both 2026 constitutional amendmentsVermont Secretary of State 2026 voter guide, Addison edition
STATEWIDE4Question

Explicit equal protection in the state Constitution

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Checked: Title, Summary, Yes vote, No vote, Beneficiaries, Fiscal estimate, Tradeoffs, Named organizations.

Unknown: Final outcomes, future contract awards and your individual tax bill are not established by a ballot authorization.

Vermont Legislature: official publication of both 2026 constitutional amendmentsVermont Secretary of State 2026 voter guide, Addison edition

Guarantees equal protection and bars the state from denying equal treatment based on race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or national origin. It expressly preserves measures intended to improve equality for groups that have historically faced discrimination.

YES

Adds this equal-protection provision to Vermont’s Constitution. A majority of votes on the proposal is required.

NO

Leaves the existing constitutional and statutory protections in place without this new provision.

Who benefits or is affected

People challenging unequal treatment by the state would have the proposed express constitutional protections. The amendment makes no named financial award and supplies no quantified payment or tax reduction.

Costs and tradeoffs

No new borrowing or tax is specified. Litigation and implementation costs have not been quantified in the official ballot text; an individual tax bill cannot be calculated from it.

The text expressly preserves measures intended to improve equality for groups that have historically faced discrimination. It therefore includes both a nondiscrimination rule and that remedial-measures provision. The official text supplies no quantified implementation or litigation cost.

Organizations named in the records

Recipient names: unknown. No separately verified allocation or contract-award list is recorded for this question. This does not mean no recipients exist.

Published party positions

Democratic Party

Unknown — no verified statement is recorded for this question.

Republican Party

Unknown — no verified statement is recorded for this question.

A position applies to the named organization, not every party member. Missing evidence does not establish neutrality. We do not infer a party’s position from its ideology or a legislator’s vote.

Vermont Legislature: official publication of both 2026 constitutional amendmentsVermont Secretary of State 2026 voter guide, Addison edition

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