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Bill: Communism! Part V
Details
Submitted by[?]: Soviet Party (Trotskyist)
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 2543
Description[?]:
| Yes, it's back. The Communism! bill returns! Article 1: If employers can just fire striking workers and replace them with strike-breakers, the right to strike is meaningless. Article 2: If unions are prohibited from expressing their support for other unions, the workers' morale will decrease. Article 3: The current laws on the right to strike have a huge loophole: bourgeois parties can designate whatever industry gives them the most money as "critical to society", and take away their right to strike. |
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: Employers can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons.
Proposed: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Secondary strike action.
Old value:: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Current: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Proposed: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The workers' right to strike.
Old value:: All workers, except certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society, 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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:41:48, March 08, 2008 CET | From | Soviet Party (Trotskyist) | To | Debating the Communism! Part V |
| Message | Why are the other parties voting no? Please elaborate. |
| Date | 07:13:12, March 08, 2008 CET | From | Supporters of Science in Design (IP) | To | Debating the Communism! Part V |
| Message | This bill could lead to full strikes of the police, nurses, and other officials needed to keep citizens safe. In addition our party advocates for a capitalist Malivia, which this bill would detract from. -Joseph Hunter, Chancellor, Supporters of Science in Design |
| Date | 14:41:13, March 08, 2008 CET | From | Soviet Party (Trotskyist) | To | Debating the Communism! Part V |
| Message | Why shouldn't the police be allowed to strike? |
| Date | 00:16:16, March 10, 2008 CET | From | Militarist Party | To | Debating the Communism! Part V |
| Message | Because the police are vital to national security. I doubt ANYONE would be happy with anarchy. |
| Date | 22:54:55, March 10, 2008 CET | From | Soviet Party (Trotskyist) | To | Debating the Communism! Part V |
| Message | The only thing the police do is protect the bourgeois system of government that takes away the rights of the proletariats. Though we prefer Communism, anarchism would be better then capitalism. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 244 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 474 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 32 |
| Random fact: Party candidates for head of state elections are not visible to the public. This means that you cannot see who will run and who will not, which adds another strategic element to the elections. |
| Random quote: "The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." - Mark Twain |