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Bill: 100% trade unionism
Details
Submitted by[?]: Tribal Revolutionary Council
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: March 2538
Description[?]:
| There is only one satisfactory method of securing 100 per cent. Trade Unionism-that is, by State legislation. Every worker will be compelled by the law of the land to become a member of the trade or industrial union appropriate to his trade, profession or calling just as at present he is compelled by the law of the land to insure against sickness and unemployment. The compulsion in one case is no more an encroachment on the liberty of the individual than is the compulsion in the other case quoted. It follows quite naturally that if workers are to be compelled to join their appropriate unions, those unions must be National not sectional, industrial not political, in character. |
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 may exist and all workers must have membership in one.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:15:44, February 24, 2008 CET | From |  Trotskyist Workers Party | To | Debating the 100% trade unionism |
| Message | Whilst the TWP would like to see every worker a member of a Trades Union, it is the workers right to excercise freedom of choice. The TWP will vote against |
| Date | 05:28:33, February 25, 2008 CET | From | Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the 100% trade unionism |
| Message | No, why should one be forced to do something that he or she might be against. Sure, it may be a disadvantage but the government shouldn't force anyone to join a union, this leads to undemocratic ideals such as communism or fascism or in the case of ingsoc (lack of capitals here deserved) anti-Semitic Nazism. |
| Date | 18:06:04, February 25, 2008 CET | From | Tribal Revolutionary Council | To | Debating the 100% trade unionism |
| Message | "anti-Semitic Nazism" What the hell does this have to do with Jews or National Socialism? |
| Date | 00:51:04, February 26, 2008 CET | From | Enlightened Cosmic Brotherhood | To | Debating the 100% trade unionism |
| Message | I'm also confused. If you have trade unions then they should be at maximum capacity. The AAP is spouting nonsense again. |
| Date | 02:35:41, February 26, 2008 CET | From | Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the 100% trade unionism |
| Message | We're equating ingsoc with anti-Semitism and how you/ingsoc want to kill all Jews. |
| Date | 11:09:48, February 26, 2008 CET | From | Christian Nationalist Front | To | Debating the 100% trade unionism |
| Message | I see that the "civil" left wing party only supports the civil rights of people who vote for socialism. What about the civil right of not being part of a union. It seems that the socialists wish to destroy our freedom of choice when it comes to voluntary unionism. Not surprising, the first step towards a dictatorship is usually hidden behind the veil of "socialism" |
| Date | 17:44:13, February 26, 2008 CET | From | Trotskyist Workers Party | To | Debating the 100% trade unionism |
| Message | TWP represents Socialism in it's true, revolutionary, democratic form. It is in fact completely un-socialist to make membership of a union mandatory. It is, however, sublimely Stalinist |
| Date | 20:52:39, February 26, 2008 CET | From | Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the 100% trade unionism |
| Message | Well, the Black Brigades do support another holocaust against the Jews, just like Stalin tried to do (before he was thankfully wiped out). |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 437 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 312 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "Don't listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do." - Nguyen Van Thieu |