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Bill: Workers' Rights Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Malivi Revolutionary Front
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 2450
Description[?]:
| Comrades! The bourgeois among us have created barriers impeding the liberation of the workers. They try to placate you with token concessions, but THEY are the ones who should be begging for the mercy of the proletariat! The MRF, vanguard of the people, demand that all workers immediately be granted the fundamental right to strike. It must furthermore be understood that, by denying workers the right to support their comrades in a secondary strike, the capitalist pigs are intentionally dividing the people in order to rule it more easily - we therefore demand that the right to secondary strikes be immediately reinstated. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Secondary strike action.
Old value:: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Current: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Proposed: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
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 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 | 18:49:36, September 03, 2007 CET | From | National Anti-Communist Front | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Act |
| Message | The absurdity of allowing any one to strike on a whim has been thoroughly discussed in previous debates. |
| Date | 20:15:27, September 03, 2007 CET | From | Supporters of Science in Design (IP) | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Act |
| Message | We are willing to support allowing sympathy strikes, but not to the extent that would allow the police to totally go on strike. |
| Date | 00:07:11, September 04, 2007 CET | From | Radical Labor Confederation | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Act |
| Message | How is giving worker's their only tool against their greedy employers an absurdity? |
| Date | 01:45:07, September 04, 2007 CET | From | National Anti-Communist Front | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Act |
| Message | Workers choose to be in their "greedy employers" employment. The business owners should not have to fear strikes from their own workers simply because their every whim is not taken care of. The state has already set standards that employers have to meet to ensure a decent pay and safety measures a given to employees anything more then that are luxuries that employers may provide at their discretion. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 321 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 279 |
| Random fact: Treaties will be eligible for deletion if they are more than 50 in-game years old and have no currently ratified members. |
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