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Bill: Strikes Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Royal Conservative Party
Status[?]: passed
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: April 2097
Description[?]:
| 1) Employees of the fire service may not strike 2) Employees of the police service may not strike 3) Employees of the health service may not strike 4) If an employee of one of the aforementioned employers have a pay dispute, they must first take the dispute to an independent and neutral mediator in order to reach a non-binding agreement. 5) However if this fails, then the employees may take their case before the courts. if the claim is valid, then the courts may order the employers mentioned to increase the wage to an appropriate and fair amount. |
Proposals
Article 1
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, except certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society, have the right to strike.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:27:51, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Royal Conservative Party | To | Debating the Strikes Bill |
| Message | For the fire service, the police service and the health service, a minimal standard is simply not an option because these services must be kept running at full efficiency. If they are not, then lifes will be needlessly put at risk and for what? The selfish demands of a few greedy strikers |
| Date | 03:45:19, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Democractic Socialist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the Strikes Bill |
| Message | You might take "Unionist" out of your name, CUP. I'll allow a modification of my bill to include on the health and law enforcement services, but I will never support this one. |
| Date | 04:00:03, August 16, 2005 CET | From |  Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Strikes Bill |
| Message | Supported |
| Date | 04:01:51, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Royal Conservative Party | To | Debating the Strikes Bill |
| Message | Unionist does not stand for Trade Unions but the union of states (in RL, this irefers to Northern Ireland staying part of Great Britain). |
| Date | 04:55:13, August 16, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Strikes Bill |
| Message | Strikes are the only weapons "greedy" workers have to battle their employers large arsenals, so we oppose this. |
| Date | 05:12:32, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Strikes Bill |
| Message | Workers can quit, or join a union and threaten to all quit at once. |
| Date | 15:35:36, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Strikes Bill |
| Message | What advantage does joining a union give if the union may not act TiC. We oppose on the basis of the description. It is not the place of a tribunal to decide the remuneration of any service. It is an item to be negotiated between the employer and employee. Where there is a monopoly on employment and service of a type, then strikes have to be allowed as there is no alternative form of protest available. Thus we also oppose making police and fire service strikes illegal. |
| Date | 17:45:45, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Strikes Bill |
| Message | Clause four should be replaced. The first step in a labour dispute is collective bargaining in which both sides make a good-faith effort to come to an agreement. Only if no agreement is possible should the matter go to binding arbitration. |
| Date | 22:48:52, August 16, 2005 CET | From | National People's Gang | To | Debating the Strikes Bill |
| Message | What about the cleaners employed by the fire service? Can they strike? What about the chap who runs the teashop at the hospital, can he strike? What about the woman who washes police cars, can she strike? |
| Date | 00:49:42, August 17, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Strikes Bill |
| Message | The Greens are able to support this moderate bill with the changes made. |
| Date | 15:13:33, August 17, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Strikes Bill |
| Message | We had thought that indenture was no longer legal. What this bill is doing is indenturing anyone who chooses to enter any of the emergency services. Voluntary slavery is still slavery. We oppose. |
| Date | 15:19:48, August 17, 2005 CET | From | Royal Conservative Party | To | Debating the Strikes Bill |
| Message | Rubbish, utter and complete rubbish. Slaves aren't paid. Slaves don't have the opportuntity to leave their jobs. Slaves are not given the opportunity to take their wage claim to court. Lives are put at risk by the emergency services striking. What if someone has a heart attack during a doctor's strike? It is not fair that people should be put in mortal danger because a group of employees want more money. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 300 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 150 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "OOC", "IC" and "IG" are commonly-used acronyms in Particracy. "OOC" refers to comments, discussions and actions which are out-of-character, meaning they are done player-to-player rather than party-to-party. "IC" refers to in-character interactions (ie. party-to-party). Similarly, "IG" means in-game, although this term may also simply refer to what happens in the actual game interface, as opposed to on the forum or elsewhere. "RP" just means "role-play". |
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