This amendment moves a budgeting decision out of the elected governor's hands and locks it into the constitution: whatever a union negotiates, the budget must fund, and impasses go to a binding arbitrator who answers to no voter. A laborer is worth his wages, and Scripture is emphatic that the hired man must be paid what is just and on time. But the same Scripture that protects the worker also warns against putting the public purse on autopilot. A citizen weighing this should ask who bears the cost when an unelected arbitrator's award must be funded regardless of revenue — the taxpayer — and whether removing the governor's discretion strengthens working families or simply entrenches public-sector union leverage at the expense of budget accountability. Stewardship of the commonwealth's money and fair dealing with its servants are both biblical duties; this measure trades flexibility for a guarantee, and voters should weigh that trade with open eyes.
"Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy... At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it."
— Deuteronomy 24:14-15 (KJV)