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Bill: Union Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Partie Traditionnelle de Monarchiste
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: March 2447
Description[?]:
| If Alduria is to have progress, equality, and morality, we must eliminate the excesses of union power that exist. All government protection unions must be struck down and unions limited to peaceful activities. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Current: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Proposed: Employers are free to fire workers who go on strike.
Article 2
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.
Proposed: All strikes are illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:03:44, August 22, 2007 CET | From | Partie Traditionnelle de Monarchiste | To | Debating the Union Reform Act |
| Message | The Partie Traditionelle de Monarchiste opens the floor for debate, so that any disagreements might be mended and amendments suggested. |
| Date | 03:04:37, August 22, 2007 CET | From | Partie Légitimisme | To | Debating the Union Reform Act |
| Message | The Légitimisme support this bill. The radical masses that are the workers must be kept tamed! |
| Date | 16:01:02, August 22, 2007 CET | From | Pragmatist Party | To | Debating the Union Reform Act |
| Message | The Pragmatists will not support removing our citizens' right to collective bargaining. |
| Date | 19:42:04, August 22, 2007 CET | From | Partie Traditionnelle de Monarchiste | To | Debating the Union Reform Act |
| Message | The Partie Traditionelle de Monarchiste reminds the Pragmatist Party that this bill in no way hampers collective bargaining. Merely, it prevents unions holding their employers hostage and stops them from bashing in the heads of "scabs" with baseball bats. |
| Date | 21:08:53, August 22, 2007 CET | From | Pragmatist Party | To | Debating the Union Reform Act |
| Message | The Pragmatists remind the Monarchists that without the ability to go on strike, unions have nothing to bargain with. Further, laws against assault and battery prevent scabs from being attacked already. |
| Date | 23:28:35, August 22, 2007 CET | From | Partie Traditionnelle de Monarchiste | To | Debating the Union Reform Act |
| Message | The Partie Traditionelle de Monarchiste reminds the Pragmatist Party that the unions still have the ability to perform mass quits as a bargaining technique, and indeed this is the only legitimate bargaining technique unions have in a free and equitable society. The PTM wonders what the Pragmatist Party thinks occurs during a strike? Do not the union workers picket and prevent others (scabs) from entering? How can they do this, except by force? Unions have always, and will always, resort to violence if they are allowed to. And by protecting their picketing, we have ignored the laws when it comes to strikers. |
| Date | 03:38:40, August 25, 2007 CET | From | Parti social-démocrate | To | Debating the Union Reform Act |
| Message | Striking is a peaceful activity and one of the basic rights that workers of Alduria should have. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 53 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 281 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 91 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?" - Emma Goldman |