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Bill: Secondary Strike Again Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Country Labor Party
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: November 2155
Description[?]:
| Unlike certain other parties in Mordusia, we generally do not agree with the idea of taking proposals that have failed and resubmitting them over and over. We would prefer that every proposal succeed or fail on a majority vote. This proposal failed on a plurality, and not every party that expressed support had an opportunity to vote for it. If they had, it would have passed, so we are resubmitting it in the hope of getting a majority vote. Unions that are not on strike have a valid contract and should be required to work according to that contract. A contract is a binding promise; a shared responsibility between labor and management. Unions should not be free to break their contract and go out on strike whenever they want. |
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 | 20:52:13, December 09, 2005 CET | From | Unio Liberál daď Ordio Mordusián | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Again Act |
| Message | We will support it just like in the past. |
| Date | 22:13:37, December 09, 2005 CET | From | Left Socialist Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Again Act |
| Message | We again, will vote against, again... |
| Date | 22:29:07, December 09, 2005 CET | From | National Thomasian Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Again Act |
| Message | We will support again. |
| Date | 03:35:25, December 10, 2005 CET | From | Left-Hand Path | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Again Act |
| Message | A point of order: not all jobs are contract-based. While I'm sure nobody would support allowing people to violate their contractual obligations, we should not ban secondary strikes by groups that would not breach a contract. |
| Date | 06:25:42, December 10, 2005 CET | From | Country Labor Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Again Act |
| Message | True, but all unions are contract-based. Unions derive their power from bargaining for all of the workers collectively. The unions bargain with management, and the resulting agreement is a contract that the union members vote on. That is why we pointed out that unions not on strike are working under a valid contract with management. They should not be free to break their contract, and walk off the job, simply because they want to. |
| Date | 17:06:28, December 13, 2005 CET | From | Country Labor Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Again Act |
| Message | For the LHP, we would point out that the other two options here begin "Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike..." and "Only closely related trade unions can walk out on a sympathy strike...". We don't know why the proposed standard says "Workers and unions...", but for the purposes of this bill we would agree that workers who do not belong to a union and therefore are not bound by a contract can do what they want. |
| Date | 17:43:43, December 13, 2005 CET | From | Left Socialist Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Again Act |
| Message | If this bill passes, LSP will vote against the current proposal for a government, and will not take any initative any more to form a new one. This was the deal we put forward, and no other parties ha |
| Date | 17:43:59, December 13, 2005 CET | From | Left Socialist Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Again Act |
| Message | If this bill passes, LSP will vote against the current proposal for a government, and will not take any initative any more to form a new one. This was the deal we put forward, and no other parties have given an other view on it. |
| Date | 18:56:18, December 13, 2005 CET | From | National Thomasian Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Again Act |
| Message | We agreed with the LSP that we would try to avoid a change in the law in regards to trade union in order to form a government. However this law now looks sure to pass and as we agreed with it to begin with we will be voting for to avoid damaging our voting record. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 194 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 109 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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