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Bill: Safe Strike Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Wessex High Imperial 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: June 2477
Description[?]:
| This bill seeks to protect workers who strike through their unions against indiscriminately losing their jobs. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Employers can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons.
Current: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Proposed: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:18:12, October 25, 2007 CET | From |  Wessex High Imperial Party | To | Debating the Safe Strike Act |
| Message | The UU party opposes the restrictions imposed by a totalitarian regime, including not protecting the working class from unionizing and being protected to strike through unions in the hopes of improving working conditions. |
| Date | 05:21:41, October 25, 2007 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Safe Strike Act |
| Message | The SDP strongly supports this reform. Workers must have a voice and the free ability to strike without fear of job loss is essential to exercising their voice. |
| Date | 05:55:22, October 25, 2007 CET | From | Nrzi Prta (Democratic Party) | To | Debating the Safe Strike Act |
| Message | The ETPRP opposes this restriction aganist the right to fire worker. We believe that the worker must have a reasonable reasons to go on stike. |
| Date | 08:13:33, October 25, 2007 CET | From | Wessex High Imperial Party | To | Debating the Safe Strike Act |
| Message | Perhaps the UU party has misread the current law: does the law read that employers may indiscriminately fire workers who go on strike, or does the law read that employers may fire workers who strike even though the workers do not have just cause? The wording of this bill is unclear. We would urge Pontesi to err on the side of caution, here, and allow workers every protection while striking--truthfully, whether or not the employer finds just cause for the strike is irrelevant to the worker's need to strike to improve working conditions. |
| Date | 12:08:42, October 25, 2007 CET | From | Nrzi Prta (Democratic Party) | To | Debating the Safe Strike Act |
| Message | The current law say that if the worker have gone on strike without reasonable reasons than the Employer have every right to fire the worker. |
| Date | 19:17:57, October 25, 2007 CET | From | Wessex High Imperial Party | To | Debating the Safe Strike Act |
| Message | The UU party still believes the workers should have protections if and when they decide a strike is in their best interest and still backs this bill. |
| Date | 20:10:08, October 25, 2007 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Safe Strike Act |
| Message | The SDP does not believe the Employer should be the ultimate judge of what constitutes "reasonable" reasons, as their view is rather subjective. |
| Date | 00:59:44, October 26, 2007 CET | From | Puritanical Party | To | Debating the Safe Strike Act |
| Message | This bill would take away power from business, giving the workers too much. We strongly oppose. |
| Date | 08:54:07, October 26, 2007 CET | From | Nrzi Prta (Democratic Party) | To | Debating the Safe Strike Act |
| Message | The ETPRP believe that if you give too much power to the worker than the business will collapsed because the worker will get greedy so we must oppose to this bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 128 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 243 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 254 |
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