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Bill: Workplace Democracy Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party of Hobrazia
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 2589
Description[?]:
| An act to create incentives for radical experiments in democracy without violating the spirit of the market. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Current: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Proposed: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:35:47, June 06, 2008 CET | From |  Liberal Party of Hobrazia | To | Debating the Workplace Democracy Act |
| Message | This might be a rare occasion for us Liberals to find some common ground with the left. |
| Date | 04:28:04, June 06, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Workplace Democracy Act |
| Message | As well as a rare occasion that the CNP will oppose the Liberals on an issue of Economics. |
| Date | 15:53:14, June 06, 2008 CET | From | People's Liberation Front of Hobrazia | To | Debating the Workplace Democracy Act |
| Message | We agree with the LPH. |
| Date | 17:19:06, June 06, 2008 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Workplace Democracy Act |
| Message | We cannot support this. DMC's are inherently poor at managing companies. They are slow to react to changing economic conditions, cumbersome, expensive and just a poor way of operating within any form of market. However, we can accept that some businesses find them the best way of operation but it is the fact that this bill will encourage their formation by subsidising them and providing them with tax exemptions. If they are the best way of operating a business then there should be no requirement to provide them with additional support compared with any other private enterprise. Let them compete and sink or swim by their ability to operate in a competitive market, not by giving them an unfair advantage. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 165 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 173 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 62 |
| Random fact: Bill descriptions must be in English, or at least include a full English translation. Bill titles may appear in a language that is appropriate to the nation and are not required to be translated into English. |
| Random quote: "In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Pastor Martin Niemoller |