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Bill: Strike Ballots
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libyeral Nam Ekologiin (Liberal Ecology
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: June 3649
Description[?]:
| Now we have secured the right to strike. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Trade union strike ballots.
Old value:: Trade unions are not required by law to hold a ballot before striking.
Current: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, a majority of all members, regardless of if they vote or not must approve the strike action.
Proposed: 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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:38:49, April 09, 2014 CET | From |  Zemojad Prta (Labour Party) | To | Debating the Strike Ballots |
| Message | "We support our comrades' right to strike in any circumstances, unconstrained by the bourgeois exuberance that is the ballot box!" - Harry Bodman, Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 399 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 252 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson |