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Bill: Essential Workers Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Al'Badara Republican 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: September 2451
Description[?]:
| The AAP supports unions and such but there should be limitations on the actions of essential workers (nurses, doctors, police officers, paramedics, etc.). If they do strike, the whole union cannot strike with them, that they should have at least a minimal, skeletal staff membership with them. If one does not support such a move, then lawlessness will reign supreme! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The workers' right to strike.
Old value:: All workers have the right to strike.
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 but certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society have to ensure a minimal service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:16:31, September 05, 2007 CET | From |  People's Mujaheddin | To | Debating the Essential Workers Act |
| Message | No, the right to strike is a given right to all citizens regardless of social standing. If you fear to lose critical services, simply don't give the workers any reason to strike. |
| Date | 21:01:42, September 05, 2007 CET | From | Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the Essential Workers Act |
| Message | So, if the economy collapses and the government cannot afford healthcare workers or police officers and then they go on strike, the PM will just stand back and go, "Oh well, let them strike!". Clearly the PM sees the world through rose-tinted glasses! In reality, most industrialised and liberal countries have such a thing. Police officers in Ontario cannot unilaterally go on strike (there still has to be some sort of police force). They are all unionised still and have something called "work to rule", perhaps something that the PM has never heard about! As it proves, the PM only cares about anarchy and mob-rule turning our glorious Al'badara to something on scale with Somalia! In this, although no, they cannot strike outright, they can either strike but still have people still working (rotating) or at least work to rule (where they refuse to do something non-critical but will still respond to emergencies) |
| Date | 02:24:16, September 06, 2007 CET | From | People's Mujaheddin | To | Debating the Essential Workers Act |
| Message | The keyword in the AAP's argument can be found here; "In reality, most industrialised and liberal countries have such a thing. " Al'Badara is not a liberal country. Furthermore the PM is quite astonished when the AAP starts referring to imaginary countries. What is Somalia? As said before, seeing as how all "vital" parts of the public system are owned by the state, it ends up being the states responsibility to make sure that the employees of the state are satisfied with bare-able working conditions. There has not yet been a single incident within Al'Badara after the Red Revolution, of which members of any "critical" part of the society have gone on strike. There have been times when friction was caused, but the mere threat of a strike was enough for the liberal government to back down and lift the health budget. |
| Date | 04:51:18, September 06, 2007 CET | From | Christian Nationalist Front | To | Debating the Essential Workers Act |
| Message | Oh how i pity the members of PM who live in a deluded world. Socialism doesn't work, all it does is lead to useless bureaucracy and stagnation. Our country is not some paradise where no wrong happens, in fact your policies are turning our nation into a backwards, third world banana republic. |
| Date | 06:33:38, September 06, 2007 CET | From | CSA Communist Party of the DPRK | To | Debating the Essential Workers Act |
| Message | shut up idiot |
| Date | 07:28:44, September 06, 2007 CET | From | Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the Essential Workers Act |
| Message | Funny how this unknown, mingling foreign party sums up his/her argument by stating, "shut up idiot" when the CNF, who has strived a long way from immaturity (which we in the AAP were pretty uncomfortable with, no offense to the CNF) to thought-provoking, intelligent comebacks. Maybe the CNF touched off the DPRK by the fact that the DPRK's acronym is also the same of a certain Earth (to keep in ties with PM's unknown assessment of Somaliland) country which country is so quite poor that it is eating the scraps of PR China, hmm? In essence what the AAP is saying is that the DPRK should not get involved in OUR personal affairs when they should be running their own country. It is in diplomatic circles a FAUX PAS of epic proportions and is considered "idiotic" and almost an act of war. |
| Date | 14:00:07, September 06, 2007 CET | From | CSA Communist Party of the DPRK | To | Debating the Essential Workers Act |
| Message | 1. China only clames to be socialist but not really there capitalist for eample THEY HAVE A FKING STOCK MARKET! 2. socialism can bring a economic clospse but so can capitalism remeber the great depressen? 3. socialism can only bring negtive if you make less money then exampces sence this is not the case yah. 4. I am in a allaince with DN which I am a leader in so I will help him |
| Date | 14:02:44, September 06, 2007 CET | From | CSA Communist Party of the DPRK | To | Debating the Essential Workers Act |
| Message | 5. The CNF is Theorcratic I am sorry but I have gthe decencey to get very mad at theorcratics |
| Date | 15:01:34, September 06, 2007 CET | From | People's Mujaheddin | To | Debating the Essential Workers Act |
| Message | How does the PM live in a deluded world CNF? We really wonder if it really is the PM who lives in a deluded world and not the CNF, seeing as how your party claims to highlight Christian "oppression". Perhaps we did not fulfil our part completely by eliminating the Christian fascists during the Civil War. |
| Date | 16:01:06, September 06, 2007 CET | From | Enlightened Cosmic Brotherhood | To | Debating the Essential Workers Act |
| Message | DPRK I appreciate your....input. However certain matters don't require foreign inputs and flaming rhetoric and anger. Let us handle that. Furthermore, it is wonderfully ironic that the Christians are against something that they believe doesn't work because they haven't seen it yet. Furthermore, "Anarchy" is a sensative word. It means without leaders, not without order. You use Anarchy when you mean Chaos. Also, we should not allow the oppression of important workers just because they're important. "Sorry Steve, I know you can't live off that paycheck but your job is important so bite the bullet!" |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 68 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 83 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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