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Bill: SDWF Secondary Strikes Bill, 2050
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Democratic Workers' Federation
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: April 3051
Description[?]:
| The SDWF places the extension of, and protection of, workers' rights as one of its central ideological tenents. This legislation will lend trade unions seeking to improve workplace conditions greater credibility in both an abstract and a practical sense. It will enable workers to mobilise to full effect in the struggle for great rights in the workplace. -Arnold Deniau |
Proposals
Article 1
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: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
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 | 00:37:25, December 25, 2010 CET | From |  Coalition for National Unity [CNU] | To | Debating the SDWF Secondary Strikes Bill, 2050 |
| Message | "Absolutely not. We shall not allow for Unions to be hijacked for political gain. Unions are there to protect the rights and welfare of their own members, not others." Horace, Lord Callermansted Unionist Chancellor Former Lord Protector of the Solentian Regency |
| Date | 11:32:01, December 25, 2010 CET | From | Social Democratic Workers' Federation | To | Debating the SDWF Secondary Strikes Bill, 2050 |
| Message | "This legislation would allow them to do that more effectively. It would lend greater credibility to the trade unions in their role of protecing workers' rights." -Arnold Deniau |
| Date | 01:34:51, December 26, 2010 CET | From | Meritocratic Alliance | To | Debating the SDWF Secondary Strikes Bill, 2050 |
| Message | It would lead to marxist tyranny. |
| Date | 18:55:57, December 26, 2010 CET | From | Social Democratic Workers' Federation | To | Debating the SDWF Secondary Strikes Bill, 2050 |
| Message | "Tell me, has the Whig Party always dealt exclusively in platitudes?" -Arnold Deniau |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 251 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 174 |
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