Union groups needed 140k Utahns to support a referendum. They got more than a quarter million signatures.

Pro-union groups got enough signatures in 23 of Utah’s 29 senate districts, well above the 15 districts they needed.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Labor leaders turn in nineteen boxes of signatures (the sixth drop to Salt Lake County) in their attempt to qualify a referendum repealing an anti-union bill, at the Salt Lake County Clerk's office on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

Union groups needed 140k Utahns to support a referendum. They got more than a quarter million signatures.

Pro-union groups got enough signatures in 23 of Utah’s 29 senate districts, well above the 15 districts they needed.

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