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Bill: Trade Union Rights
Details
Submitted by[?]: Vrné Eslam (Green Theocracy)
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: August 3649
Description[?]:
| Our nation has suppressed the rights of trade unions for too long. They must be allowed to negotiate on behalf of their members, and they should be allowed to strike without fear of losing their jobs. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Collective bargaining
Old value:: No employees may engage in collective bargaining
Current: No employees may engage in collective bargaining
Proposed: Public and private sector employees have the right to collectively bargain
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Employers are free to fire workers who go on strike.
Current: Employers are free to fire workers who go on strike.
Proposed: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:26:57, April 09, 2014 CET | From |  Parti Minarchiste | To | Debating the Trade Union Rights |
| Message | There seems to be a consensus on Article 1. We cannot support 2 - can people just endlessly strike without the employer being able to do anything? |
| Date | 17:48:12, April 09, 2014 CET | From | Zemojad Prta (Labour Party) | To | Debating the Trade Union Rights |
| Message | "This is acceptable to us." - Harry Bodman, Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry |
| Date | 18:02:19, April 09, 2014 CET | From | Vrné Eslam (Green Theocracy) | To | Debating the Trade Union Rights |
| Message | On article 2, the government retains the ability to overturn workers' protection in the rare cases where an industrial dispute is intractable and the workers are the ones in the wrong. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 394 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 257 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "The main problem of the left is that it has been traditionally divided and unable to reach agreements between different leftist views, whilst the right has almost always moved in the same direction by giving concessions to different rightist points of view." - Aelius Celer, former Selucian politician |