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Bill: Secondary Strike Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Country Labor 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: November 2152
Description[?]:
| Unions that are not on strike have a valid contract and should be required to work according to that contract. They should not be free to walk off the job because another union that has gone on strike asks for it. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Secondary strike action.
Old value:: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Current: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Proposed: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:34:15, December 06, 2005 CET | From | Unio Liberál daď Ordio Mordusián | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Act |
| Message | We agree. |
| Date | 15:48:18, December 06, 2005 CET | From | Plinio's United Followers | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Act |
| Message | Agree completely |
| Date | 00:50:57, December 07, 2005 CET | From | Left Socialist Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Act |
| Message | Completely foolish. Secondary strike is a very important way to decide in serious social conflicts |
| Date | 16:48:50, December 07, 2005 CET | From | Plinio's United Followers | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Act |
| Message | Secondary action has no relation with the people that are originaly making the strike. It is often used simply to gain popular power and keep the membership busy. |
| Date | 16:54:11, December 07, 2005 CET | From | Country Labor Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Act |
| Message | We repeat: unions not on strike have already under contract. That is, they have agreed to work for a salary and other considerations. The LSP says that that contract is irrelevant, and can be broken any time the workers want. And strikes are not "social conflicts". They are business transactions between companies and unions. |
| Date | 23:19:33, December 07, 2005 CET | From | Left-Hand Path | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Act |
| Message | Not all workers are on contract. They have a right to not work, so long as they understand that they won't be paid, either. It's nobody's business why someone doesn't work. |
| Date | 23:39:13, December 07, 2005 CET | From | National Thomasian Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Act |
| Message | because union leaders are not democratically accountable to their members a handful of men could force all the workers in the country to down tools through secondary strike action. It is our business to see that a small undemocratic group could hold the nation to ransom for their own gain. |
| Date | 00:35:16, December 08, 2005 CET | From | Country Labor Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Act |
| Message | The proposal covers only "union workers"; what other workers choose to do is not covered here. Workers achieve bargaining power by joining together in a union. The union exists primarily to negotiate the terms of a contract with the company owners. This contract represents a promise by both sides; neither side should be able to violate it whenever they want to. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 86 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 118 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 99 |
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