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Bill: Union Discontinuance Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Union of Work-Shy Elements
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: November 2152
Description[?]:
| The treacherous and self serving unions have held Kundrati back for decades. There’s one sure way stop it once and for all. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards labor unions.
Old value:: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Current: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Proposed: Trade unions are illegal.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Secondary strike action.
Old value:: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Current: Only closely related trade unions can walk out on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Proposed: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The workers' right to strike.
Old value:: All workers have the right to strike.
Current: All workers, except certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society, have the right to strike.
Proposed: All strikes are illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:44:42, December 05, 2005 CET | From | Unio enim si quis Motus Populi | To | Debating the Union Discontinuance Act |
| Message | We feel that outlawing Unions altogther is a bad things, as then there is no check on business. |
| Date | 22:27:54, December 05, 2005 CET | From | Alderdath Lebrali Demkratti | To | Debating the Union Discontinuance Act |
| Message | i agree with the FD |
| Date | 22:16:01, December 06, 2005 CET | From | Kundrati Revolutionary Movement | To | Debating the Union Discontinuance Act |
| Message | Should any of this even look like it might pass, the unions affiliated with the KRM will occupy their workplaces, lock the bosses out, and encourage other workers to do likewise. Additionally, Consul Goldman has vowed to refuse to authorize any national police actions to end such occupations, and KRM members in local government will obstruct any similar actions actions as far as they are able to. The working class and it's allies in the KRM will not allow naked aggression aimed at the instruments of worker solidarity to go unchallenged, in the senate and in the streets. |
| Date | 14:07:46, December 07, 2005 CET | From | Party of Evil | To | Debating the Union Discontinuance Act |
| Message | Supported. If the workers were fit to inlfuence company policy, they would not have been workers in the first place. |
| Date | 16:10:40, December 07, 2005 CET | From | Union of Work-Shy Elements | To | Debating the Union Discontinuance Act |
| Message | Quite so. The hollow threat of the KRM only serves to validate our claim that unions and the like continue to blunt Kundrati business and impede progress. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 55 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 250 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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