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Bill: Allow Sympathy Strikes Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic-Republican 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: December 2164
Description[?]:
| This allows unions to engage in sympathy strikes if the unions are related in nature, to force the capitulation of management to their workers' rightful demands. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Secondary strike action.
Old value:: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Current: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Proposed: Only closely related trade unions can walk out on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:01:48, December 29, 2005 CET | From |  Peoples Revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Allow Sympathy Strikes Act |
| Message | You have are support on this bill. |
| Date | 20:50:06, December 29, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Allow Sympathy Strikes Act |
| Message | Against! The people elect the government to govern. We cannot allow the majority to have there opinions overturned by those who wish to force a non democratic agenda against the declared wishes of the majority. |
| Date | 05:54:12, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Peoples Revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Allow Sympathy Strikes Act |
| Message | The only non democratic action i see here is you passing a non Sympathy Strike Act. Other then that we see this as very democratic and fair. |
| Date | 17:07:04, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Allow Sympathy Strikes Act |
| Message | How can it be democratic for a UNION who represent only their section of society to attempt to overturn a government who represent a majority of the whole of society! |
| Date | 17:39:28, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Peoples Revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Allow Sympathy Strikes Act |
| Message | Democracy is meant to protect the minority as well as the majority, if companies cant handle the fact that there workers are tired of being abused in the name of profit, and they go on strike and or sympathy strikes, maybe the companies will get there acts together and make an agreement and then this wouldnt happen. |
| Date | 21:21:54, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Allow Sympathy Strikes Act |
| Message | This has nothing to do with companies and their relations with their workforce. This is all about ALL the electorate, have the right to vote and in so doing influence the way their nation is run. Sympathy strikes are used as an attempt by a minority of the population to overturn the democratic process. In that they are used to attempt to overturn goverment policy by those who did not manage to win an election. Sympathy strikes have been banned because they are a danger to the very fabric of a democratic nation. Namely one man one vote! That is what this bill threatens and that is why we should all oppose it! |
| Date | 05:10:42, December 31, 2005 CET | From | Peoples Revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Allow Sympathy Strikes Act |
| Message | And how protects the Minority? We do, thats why we support this bill, you cant deny an entire group of people just because you want too. |
| Date | 17:28:51, December 31, 2005 CET | From | Democratic-Republican Party | To | Debating the Allow Sympathy Strikes Act |
| Message | "The Tyranny of the Majority is WORSE than the Tyranny of the Dictator" ooc: Dr. Benjamin Franklin, though Dictator was originally "Monarchy" |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 132 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 158 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 3 |
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