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Bill: Trade Union Ballots Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Fenner Brockway Socialist 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: May 2129
Description[?]:
| A bill to make union ballots fairer by ensuring that abstentions are not counted as noes. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Trade union strike ballots.
Old value:: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, a majority of all members, regardless of if they vote or not must approve the strike action.
Current: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, a majority of all members, regardless of if they vote or not must approve the strike action.
Proposed: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, majority approval of those that vote is needed from its members.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:31:24, October 19, 2005 CET | From | Novy Smer Party | To | Debating the Trade Union Ballots Bill |
| Message | We strongly support this move. |
| Date | 05:37:19, October 20, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Conservatives | To | Debating the Trade Union Ballots Bill |
| Message | The PC Party will support this. |
| Date | 18:04:44, October 20, 2005 CET | From |  Ducal Delegation | To | Debating the Trade Union Ballots Bill |
| Message | We favour keeping the law as it is. Many Trade Unionists who don't want to go on strike are intimidated by the militants into not voting. If we are to allow legal industrial action at all, it must be as the very LAST resort - we should not be making the hurdles easier... Percy Waterman (Personal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Hikirena) |
| Date | 20:27:46, October 20, 2005 CET | From | Fenner Brockway Socialist Party | To | Debating the Trade Union Ballots Bill |
| Message | We thank the NSP and PC for their support. We believe DD takes an extreme position as a result of their proudly reactionary, anti-"peasant", anti-worker ideology. Of course, we support the right of workers to refuse to even belong to a union in the first place if that's their wish. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 108 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 127 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 86 |
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