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Bill: Worker's Expression Freedom Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Left Communist 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: February 2110
Description[?]:
| The EUP proposes to the Parliament of Hobrazia that industrial action must not be regulated, to increase the freedom of expression in the industrial sector, and to give service workers (such as fire, police, healthcare, education and transport) the unparalleled right to act out against unfairness in the system. Lost services can be replaced with volunteers, will influence elections and the beliefs of Hobrazians (a regime that suffers extreme strikes will lose more confidence) and, hopefully due to the existing government's power, existing freedom and fair tax acts, will not happen. |
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 have the right to strike.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:03:55, September 11, 2005 CET | From |  We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Worker's Expression Freedom Act |
| Message | All workers have the right to strike. All the current regulations do is guarantee that those workers who offer critical services must provide a limited service (we're talking Doctors, Nurses, Police etc). There is nothing within the current regulations that stops those workers striking, and allowing those workers not to provide these critical services could cost lives to the General Public, and we will not risk public safety. |
| Date | 18:05:19, September 11, 2005 CET | From |  Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Worker's Expression Freedom Act |
| Message | No worker should be exempt from their right to strike. I'll support. |
| Date | 18:07:58, September 11, 2005 CET | From | United Socialist Movement | To | Debating the Worker's Expression Freedom Act |
| Message | The problem with allowing workers in the critical sector to strike is that it puts other members of the proletariat at a disadvantage - for example, worker's whose houses are being broken into, and the police are not at hand. Therefore, we must say no to this right now, though we will definintely encourage worker's in such critical sectors to get involved in Union politics and representation, in order to air their grievances. To be honest, EUP, could you please set out your case in the description, rather than just a one-liner and a proposal? I feel that kicking off the debate is important to reflect real politics and enhance the RP. Just a thought, I don't mean to offend. |
| Date | 18:12:57, September 11, 2005 CET | From | Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Worker's Expression Freedom Act |
| Message | All workers are not necessarily all Union workers. So if a vital sector goes on strike, there will be a suffucient non-union members to maintain that service. Remember it's vouluntary. |
| Date | 18:14:03, September 11, 2005 CET | From | United Socialist Movement | To | Debating the Worker's Expression Freedom Act |
| Message | It's not just Union members that strike. Picket lines also persuade others not to break the line. Most workers will refuse to work as a gesture of solidarity. |
| Date | 18:15:27, September 11, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Worker's Expression Freedom Act |
| Message | @L-PU - We don't stop workers from striking. All workers are allowed to strike, all the current law states is that a minimum service must continued to be operated if said work is critical to society. At no point does it say that those workers can't strike, and those workers who are involved in that sector who are striking would cause significant disruption. |
| Date | 18:37:34, September 11, 2005 CET | From | Left Communist Party | To | Debating the Worker's Expression Freedom Act |
| Message | Six other nations allow their workers to strike without limit, compared to one that takes the other extreme (Keymon). Thanks to the freedom and integrity Hobrazia currently enjoys, we feel that strikes would be rare, and we feel that the freedom to express would influence civil rights bills anyway due to the fear of industrial backlash. |
| Date | 18:45:04, September 11, 2005 CET | From | United Socialist Movement | To | Debating the Worker's Expression Freedom Act |
| Message | I don't. As long as there is capitalism and private profiteering, there will always be worker oppression. |
| Date | 19:15:38, September 11, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Worker's Expression Freedom Act |
| Message | We believe the current situation is better. There are some services that the country would have extreme difficulties surving if they striked. Imagine if there was a national complete strike by doctors and consider the number that would die as a result - volunteers would be untrained to handle such situations and could increase the problem in some cases. The current laws means that they can strike as long as there is a minimum trained service available to prevent such problems whilst still giving all workers the ability to strike. |
| Date | 22:35:33, September 11, 2005 CET | From | Social Democratic Liberal Party | To | Debating the Worker's Expression Freedom Act |
| Message | We stand by our original position on this issue. The existing legislation does not prevent any group of workers from striking, it merely ensures that essential infrastructure is maintained for the duration of the strike by requiring certain groups of workers (firefighters, doctors, police etc.) to ensure a minimal service. |
| Date | 23:57:05, September 11, 2005 CET | From | Left Communist Party | To | Debating the Worker's Expression Freedom Act |
| Message | I think that this will be one of the worst defeats in Parliament, but it has to be sent... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 365 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 35 |
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