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Bill: Free Economy Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Frisinnet Parti (The Liberals)
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: April 4001
Description[?]:
| A bill to make the economy more free. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Closed shops are places of employment where only members of a specific union are allowed to work; union shops can hire non-members, but these have to become members after a certain time; agency shops can hire non-members, who have to pay a fee to cover the unions costs. All three are erected by union agreements. (Only valid if unions are legal)
Old value:: Closed shops, union shops and agency shops are legal.
Current: Closed shops, union shops and agency shops are legal.
Proposed: Only open shops are legal.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Current: The government requires most industries to be fully run by Democratic Workers' Councils.
Proposed: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Energy regulation.
Old value:: Energy is provided by nationalised companies.
Current: Energy is provided by private companies but the prices they can charge are regulated.
Proposed: Energy is provided by private companies but the prices they can charge are regulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:19:25, March 20, 2016 CET | From | Folkebevegelsen av Kazulige (FaK) | To | Debating the Free Economy Bill |
| Message | Perhaps you have a different notion of "free". I see you restricting the freedom of workers to establish working conditions that promote their well-being. The only freedom I see you pushing for here is the freedom of the bosses to dictate conditions. It's freedom for the few. Ragnar Hallström FaK Executive Council |
| Date | 23:42:21, March 20, 2016 CET | From | Frisinnet Parti (The Liberals) | To | Debating the Free Economy Bill |
| Message | Mr Speaker, It is actually a restriction on freedom on workers to be forced to join a union. There are plenty of workers out there who do not want to be apart of a union, we are making it easier on workers to have a choice on weather to be apart of a union or not. And yes we are giving more freedom to the employers and small business owners so they can run there business, and we know that on this side of the house that if there is less taxation, if there is smaller government and less government intervention into the economy, the economy will grow and an increase of employment, in result more government revenue will flow in, this can help pay for our sprawling welfare state. The Right Honourable Beatrix Ingeborgson Statsminister and Minister for Women |
| Date | 05:02:09, March 21, 2016 CET | From | Folkebevegelsen av Kazulige (FaK) | To | Debating the Free Economy Bill |
| Message | Freedom not to join a union is the freedom to be used as a strikebreaker by management. If a worker doesn't want to koin a particular union, he can work elsewhere. His rights do not come before the rights of the other workers who organize to defend their livelihoods. If an employer can dictate terms to new employees unilaterally, why can't his colleagues do likewise through democratic consensus? You are restricting freedom to the few, and reducing it to the prerogative of management to get what it wants. Ragnar Hallström FaK Executive Council |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 109 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 91 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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