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Bill: Worker's Freedom Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Grand National 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: January 3505
Description[?]:
| Mr Speaker, we believe in the freedom of unions to agitate collectively in favor of the demands of their members, but we also have to recognize the freedom of non-unionized workers to set up individually negotiated contracts with their employer with regards to the hours they want to work. If someone wishes to work more, and thus get more pay, let him do so and bar union bosses from nannying that worker. On the other hand, we do not see why unions should be required to vote on taking action when we effectively grant all workers the right to strike. Individual freedom means that majority decrees should be discouraged in favor of individual decisions. Constance M. Woodhall MP Member for Magadonia Minister of Trade and Industry |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards daily working hours.
Old value:: The government obligates trade unions and employers to negotiate the daily number of working hours.
Current: The government obligates trade unions and employers to negotiate the daily number of working hours.
Proposed: The government has no policy concerning daily working hours.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Trade union strike ballots.
Old value:: 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.
Current: Trade unions are not required by law to hold a ballot before striking.
Proposed: Trade unions are not required by law to hold a ballot before striking.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:57:20, June 22, 2013 CET | From | Radical Liberal Party of Dranland | To | Debating the Worker's Freedom Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker Union is a collectivised organisation, adding indivualism in it makes it no sense. It is like adding sugar to salt to make it more less salty, the result will be untasteful and it will not work! My friends and communists don't fall to hidden agenda of RFR and her corporatist agenda! Keira Meesy MP Head of Solidarity Caucus |
| Date | 12:14:05, June 22, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Worker's Freedom Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, if unions want to be collectivist, they can still be, they'll just not be required by law to subject themselves to internal majority decrees. It's called self-determination. And it goes beyond my imagination how any of our policies are corporatist when we have spearheaded every substantial reform aiming at reducing government interference in the economy. Constance M. Woodhall MP Member for Magadonia Minister of Trade and Industry |
| Date | 14:27:50, June 22, 2013 CET | From | Hacia Casa | To | Debating the Worker's Freedom Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, this legislation would undermine trade union democracy and allow employers to work their workers into an early grave. It is a pity the capitalist elite which runs the RFR is only capable of thinking about its own interests and never those of everybody else. Leticia Saldanas MP Leader of the Opposition |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 71 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 325 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 3 |
| Random fact: Real-life religions should not be referenced in Particracy. Terra has its own religions, many of which mirror real-life ones. See: http://particracy.wikia.com/wiki/Illustrated_Catalogue_of_Religion |
| Random quote: "[In the West] unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without any need for an official ban." - George Orwell |