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Bill: Pro-Union Measures
Details
Submitted by[?]: Union of Public Employees
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2359
Description[?]:
| To support our fellow workers and clerks. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Employers can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons.
Current: Employers are free to fire workers who go on strike.
Proposed: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Current: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The workers' right to strike.
Old value:: All workers have the right to strike but certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society have to ensure a minimal service.
Current: All workers have the right to strike but certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society have to ensure a minimal service.
Proposed: All workers have the right to strike.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:07:38, February 12, 2007 CET | From |  Democratic Party of Dorvik | To | Debating the Pro-Union Measures |
| Message | These measures would be a huge blow for our businesses and would only decrease investments, increase braindrain & enterprises moving aboard and cause more unemployment. In no conditions we shall approve this bill. |
| Date | 11:20:11, February 12, 2007 CET | From | Noordelijk Bevrijding Front | To | Debating the Pro-Union Measures |
| Message | Too many articles |
| Date | 19:13:04, February 12, 2007 CET | From | Union of Public Employees | To | Debating the Pro-Union Measures |
| Message | Why is it that other bills have three or more articles and yet this one the Green Coalition seems to have trouble with? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 120 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 179 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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