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Bill: CA Strike Action Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative Alliance
Status[?]: passed
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: March 2384
Description[?]:
| An accompaniment to our Republican colleagues' bills on decreasing the power of the Trade Unions. Can we really endorse workers striking for whatever reason they like? Pay issues, fine, overtime, fine, conditions, fine, but demands of luxury or complaints regarding their employers' dress codes as we have seen recently in Ferescia? Oh, no no no. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
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 Secondary strike action.
Old value:: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Current: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Proposed: Only closely related trade unions can walk out on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:29:56, April 01, 2007 CET | From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the CA Strike Action Act |
| Message | You need to convince me on this one - I'm all for making it harder for unions to go on strike by banning sympathy and secondary strike action and by making voting by a majority of all union members necessary before strike action can be considered, but if these safeguards are in place then clearly people will only be striking for major reasons and as we feel that people must have a right to strike, this bill may be going a little too far |
| Date | 19:49:49, April 01, 2007 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the CA Strike Action Act |
| Message | This bill certainly does go too far in several respects. Most importantly it gives the employer undo control in the employer-employee relationship. The employers' employees become dependant on the employer for their job, and the contract relationship (in which both sides have an equal say) is torn asunder. |
| Date | 21:18:55, April 01, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Alliance | To | Debating the CA Strike Action Act |
| Message | Perhaps a cross-party committee to determine 'reasonable reasons' can be established. As we hold the Justice Ministry, we would be happy to use the courts system as a system of appeal for special cases. |
| Date | 21:18:55, April 01, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Alliance | To | Debating the CA Strike Action Act |
| Message | Perhaps a cross-party committee to determine 'reasonable reasons' can be established. As we hold the Justice Ministry, we would be happy to use the courts system as a system of appeal for special cases. |
| Date | 01:40:06, April 02, 2007 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the CA Strike Action Act |
| Message | Or you could change your proposal to "Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired", which we would still not support, but at least it would be less detrimental to the employer-employee contract relationship. |
| Date | 10:04:44, April 02, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Alliance | To | Debating the CA Strike Action Act |
| Message | Perhaps this is a better compromise? |
| Date | 11:37:11, April 02, 2007 CET | From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the CA Strike Action Act |
| Message | Whilst we do still have misgivings about introducing article 1, this is a compromise that we could support |
| Date | 01:10:30, April 03, 2007 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the CA Strike Action Act |
| Message | The Right will live to regret this rash of unforgiveable authoritarianism. |
| Date | 11:47:59, April 03, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Alliance | To | Debating the CA Strike Action Act |
| Message | Just as the left I'm sure still regrets the Great General Strike of 2360. I was a young man, then, and now we're doing something to make sure that the people of Telamon are never held to random by entirely legal methods again. |
| Date | 21:59:51, April 03, 2007 CET | From | National Fasco-Communist Order | To | Debating the CA Strike Action Act |
| Message | This is a disgusting proposal. May those who voted for it burn in hell. |
| Date | 00:02:11, April 04, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Alliance | To | Debating the CA Strike Action Act |
| Message | We love you too. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 302 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 299 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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