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Bill: Banning of Trade Unions
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dolgarian Conservative Party
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: November 2090
Description[?]:
| Trade Unions are clearly a menance to Free Trade and investment and are crippling business in our great nation as such it is our belief that such Unions should be banned and thus companies who obviously have the best interests in their employees at heart given the responsibility of looking after them and carrying the day to day running of the businesses which they have made without intereference from Trade Unions. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The workers' right to strike.
Old value:: All workers, except certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society, have the right to strike.
Current: All workers have the right to strike.
Proposed: All strikes are illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:55:18, August 04, 2005 CET | From | Dolgar Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Banning of Trade Unions |
| Message | Strikes are a balance against the dark force of underpayment. If strikes were illegal, workers would be horribly underpayed by their employers, and Dolgar would be poor. |
| Date | 06:33:26, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Neo-Liberal Party | To | Debating the Banning of Trade Unions |
| Message | Trade unions provide an effective way of consulting with a particular group of workers and supporting them in workplace matters. We should safeguard the right to strike, the right to be a member of a trade union and the intertwining issue which is right to free speech. To ban unions would be a gross violation of civil liberties and as the Libertarian Party have pointed out, their existence is economically positive for Dolgar. In future we could perhaps look at the methods used by unions and where curtailing their powers may be in the national interest. However, on the question of banning them, there is no plausible case for doing so. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 31 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 103 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 16 |
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