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Bill: A Step for The Working People
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Peoples Progressive 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 2674
Description[?]:
| The workers are the back bone to any soceity and it is our duty as public servants to keep their best intrests in mind. No matter what, every citizen of the country deserves a living wage. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:17:19, November 29, 2008 CET | From | The Peoples Progressive Party | To | Debating the A Step for The Working People |
| Message | Any worker desevers to show their support for other unions. In anyway they want. They should have the freedom to choose when and how to go on strike. |
| Date | 13:31:09, November 30, 2008 CET | From | Federal Rutanian Libertarian Union | To | Debating the A Step for The Working People |
| Message | We disagree, workers should only go on strike for their own conditions - if they should be allowed to strike at all. Any secondary strikes should be brutally put down. |
| Date | 13:31:29, November 30, 2008 CET | From | Federal Rutanian Libertarian Union | To | Debating the A Step for The Working People |
| Message | Said in jest, of course. LOL. |
| Date | 20:20:14, November 30, 2008 CET | From | The Peoples Progressive Party | To | Debating the A Step for The Working People |
| Message | What right does the Federal Government have to tell workers of a certin class not to support the workers in a different feild? If a union feels that another union isn't getting the right treatment, they deserve to have the option to support them in any way they want. |
| Date | 21:13:17, November 30, 2008 CET | From | The Peoples Progressive Party | To | Debating the A Step for The Working People |
| Message | The basic point is, who will vote against a workers living wage... |
| Date | 19:13:40, December 01, 2008 CET | From | The Egalitarian Coalition | To | Debating the A Step for The Working People |
| Message | We support the second article of this bill, but what reason is there to have such a high minimum wage? So long as a person may adequately subsist, that is enough. The government must provide the basic tenets of life for the people; it cannot mother them. |
| Date | 00:30:06, December 02, 2008 CET | From | The Peoples Progressive Party | To | Debating the A Step for The Working People |
| Message | I believe a living wage is a "basic tenet" for life. |
| Date | 00:30:38, December 02, 2008 CET | From | The Peoples Progressive Party | To | Debating the A Step for The Working People |
| Message | We're talkin full time workers here. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 293 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 306 |
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