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Bill: Trade Union Rights Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Labour Party of Cobura
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: July 2951
Description[?]:
| As a party of the working cass, as the party that grown out of the trade union movement, we are proud to return the right to strike, to our comrades, brothers and sisters in the Trade Union Movement. Laura Nittings, Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry. |
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, majority approval of those that vote is needed from its members.
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.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Current: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Proposed: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Secondary strike action.
Old value:: Only closely related trade unions can walk out on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
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 4
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.
Proposed: All workers have the right to strike but certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society have to ensure a minimal service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:39:10, June 08, 2010 CET | From |  Coffee Party New Republicans | To | Debating the Trade Union Rights Bill |
| Message | Basically means that a small business can have employees who strike all the time, but can't fire them. This is unfriendly for the employee AND for the employer. AND for the society at large. |
| Date | 19:38:43, June 08, 2010 CET | From | Democratic Labour Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Trade Union Rights Bill |
| Message | What rubbish, workers and unions wont go on strike unless the need too. No-one wants to strike, but they sometimes have too. |
| Date | 20:29:30, June 08, 2010 CET | From | Coffee Party New Republicans | To | Debating the Trade Union Rights Bill |
| Message | Lazy people have no job and live off the gov't, and those who work will now strike. |
| Date | 20:39:57, June 08, 2010 CET | From | Democratic Labour Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Trade Union Rights Bill |
| Message | The Coffee Party has just offended every working man and woman in Cobura |
| Date | 20:58:04, June 08, 2010 CET | From | Coffee Party New Republicans | To | Debating the Trade Union Rights Bill |
| Message | The Coffee Party is for working people. WORKING people. Not lazy-ass socialists. People who work hard and contribute should have the best advantages and benefits in our society, whereas those who do the opposite should also get the opposite. |
| Date | 21:53:10, June 08, 2010 CET | From | Democratic Labour Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Trade Union Rights Bill |
| Message | The Coffee Party knows nothing abbout the working people of Cobura. Most members of the Coffee Party probably haven't seen a working cass person in their life. |
| Date | 23:05:40, June 08, 2010 CET | From | Coffee Party New Republicans | To | Debating the Trade Union Rights Bill |
| Message | Most Coffee Partiers are working class people who are sick of other people being leeches on them, |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 297 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 204 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?" - Emma Goldman |