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Bill: Strike Safety Act of 2891
Details
Submitted by[?]: Union of Radical Republicans (UM)
Status[?]: passed
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 2891
Description[?]:
| This act will reestablish the governmental safeguards over unions that have gone on strike by allowing employers to appeal to the Ministry of Industry which, should it deem the proposal acceptable, would then send the matter to be decided by a vote in the House of Lords. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Current: Employers can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons.
Proposed: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:19:22, February 08, 2010 CET | From | House Lusk-Nat'l Syndicalist Party (UM) | To | Debating the Strike Safety Act of 2891 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, we approve of this legislation. |
| Date | 16:51:26, February 08, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Strike Safety Act of 2891 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, this could tie up a tremendous amount of the parliamentary schedule. Either the system will run rather like the status quo, where strikers rarely, if ever, get fired. Or parliament will be voting on whether to fire workers on a regular basis. Is this what parliament should be occupying its time with? Mr Speaker, surely the employer is best-placed to make the decision for himself. Surely he knows the circumstances better than anyone. It is time to devolve responsibility instead of constantly centralising it. I note also, that there is no right to appeal a decision in this bill, unlike our own proposal. |
| Date | 18:08:28, February 08, 2010 CET | From | Fortunato's Fascist Formation | To | Debating the Strike Safety Act of 2891 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, the people are crying for a centralised government in this unstable democracy. |
| Date | 18:15:04, February 08, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Strike Safety Act of 2891 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, in reference to the Local Hunting Regulation Act, the nationalists said that locals know best. Now they say that people are crying out for centralised government. Mr Speaker, which is it to be? |
| Date | 05:31:07, February 09, 2010 CET | From | Union of Radical Republicans (UM) | To | Debating the Strike Safety Act of 2891 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, the CLP's apparent suggestion that all businesses find firing striking employees as soon as possible to be in their best and immediate interest is absurd. How many unresolvable strikes have there been in the past year? The past decade? Furthermore, how long would the TURA's appeals take? Months? Years? Rarely do work stoppages, even major ones, remain unresolved after more than a few months at the longest; the process by which a worker - a single worker, we note - would receive remuneration would doubtless be longer than the strike action itself. We would also like to note that the TURA would involve remuneration, and not reinstatement - in its current form it does not cover the subsequent unemployment, nor the costs of having to find a new job, possibly in a different council or region. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 173 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 83 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 135 |
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