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Bill: Corporate Rights Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Totalitarian Capitalist 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: March 2449
Description[?]:
| Talmoria's leading corporations have advised the PCP to propose the following bill, as currently they are wracked with massive strikes and the trade unions are threatening to kill them "for the proletariat". Article 1: Trade unions are planning acts of violence and this cannot go unpunished. We must dissolve them before it's too late! Article 2: Strike actions accomplish nothing other than economic loss. If people have a problem, they can bring it before the government and we'll solve it. -->This bill was brought to you by McDoughnuts! For the finest doughnuts in all Terra, visit McDoughnuts.<-- |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards labor unions.
Old value:: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Current: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Proposed: Trade unions are illegal.
Article 2
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 | 22:35:01, August 27, 2007 CET | From |  Talmorian National Socialist Army | To | Debating the Corporate Rights Bill |
| Message | This will increase income for the corporations and strengthen our nation, and we must strike down communism, marxism, and socialism wherever they are found. |
| Date | 11:26:51, August 28, 2007 CET | From | Green Union | To | Debating the Corporate Rights Bill |
| Message | The GU strongly opposes such stomping of people's rights. We do not want a corporate dictatorship in our grand nation, and this bill would definately be a step in that direction. |
| Date | 17:22:15, August 28, 2007 CET | From | Progressive Autocrats | To | Debating the Corporate Rights Bill |
| Message | The Progressive Autocrats agree with the DE-NSA and the PCP that Trade Unions, and Trade Unionism in this country is out of hand, and a threat not just to the country, but to income, investment, this nation and its people. For their actions spell out Syndicalism. But these people require a means to negotiate their plight in the workplace with those at the head, be it the government or private businesses. I propose the establishment of an independant commission; independant of the government, independant of the businesses, to settle disputes, to deal with worker and employer problems, to set out wage negotiations with government and private businesses and their employees and so on. Until the people of this nation are protected, the Progressive Autocrats cannot agree to this Bill, for it takes away their rights, and has no viable alternative. Making our people weak, and poor will certainly not help our nation, rather increase dissent and opposition. Non regulated powerful businesses are also not going to make our nation strong. |
| Date | 21:35:01, August 31, 2007 CET | From | Delath Ra | To | Debating the Corporate Rights Bill |
| Message | This party favors the spirit of the bill, limiting the power of the unions. However this party, though less critical in it's view of the outcome of this legislation, stands by the GU in resisting an increase in power to the corporations. |
| Date | 07:34:46, September 01, 2007 CET | From | Talmorian National Socialist Army | To | Debating the Corporate Rights Bill |
| Message | the corporations are the key to our sucess, without them being profitable we will crumble! |
| Date | 11:59:27, September 01, 2007 CET | From | Green Union | To | Debating the Corporate Rights Bill |
| Message | Considering that currently the key problem with our economy is that our workers are not payed enough, we would argue that the problem is exactly the opposite of what the PCP and TNSA claim it to be. We should encourage the workers to call out for their rights, no the other way around. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 93 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 108 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 158 |
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