The law, HB267, was passed through the Utah Legislature this year and shortly after a group of public unions filed for a referendum against it. How Utahns say they would vote on the referendum ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — New numbers released Tuesday in the referendum effort to overturn Utah’s ban on collective bargaining show the public labor unions are seeing strong returns in their ...

Governor Spencer Cox is mulling whether to call a special statewide election this November that would allow Utahns to vote on repealing a law that bans public labor unions from collective bargaining.

Utah voters will have a chance to weigh in on the controversial law that bans public sector unions from collective bargaining in November of 2026, Gov. Cox declared Monday.

That’s not too far-fetched, though. It was just last month that Utah joined the Carolinas in becoming the third state to end collective bargaining for public employee unions.

In 1978, Congress gave federal workers the right to organize and bargain collectively, finding it in the public interest. Now Trump wants to end those labor rights for most of the federal workforce.