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Bill: Striking in Solidarity Act, 2174
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communist Party of Saridan
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: February 2176
Description[?]:
| Rise up, oh victims of oppression, For the tyrants fear your might. Don't cling so hard to your possessions, For you have nothing if you have no rights. Let racist ignorance be ended, For respect makes the empires fall,] Freedom is merely privilege extended, Unless enjoyed by one and all. So come, brothers and sisters, For the struggle carries on, The Internationale unites the world in song, So, comrades, come rally, For this is the time and place. The Internationale unites the human race. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Employers can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons.
Current: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Proposed: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:06:34, January 24, 2006 CET | From |  Communist Party of Saridan | To | Debating the Striking in Solidarity Act, 2174 |
| Message | Oh, we at Big Corporation X "deem" your reason for striking, such as very low wages, as unreasonable! You're fi-yered. |
| Date | 03:37:13, January 24, 2006 CET | From | Voter Apathy Party | To | Debating the Striking in Solidarity Act, 2174 |
| Message | So you are proposing that if, for instance, the transportation workers go on strike forever and ever our transportation system would be parked that long? That's just ridiculus. We would prefer the less drastic option of needing government approval or leaving the law alone. We will not support this option as it stands. |
| Date | 04:18:15, January 24, 2006 CET | From | Communist Party of Saridan | To | Debating the Striking in Solidarity Act, 2174 |
| Message | Unions still must take votes on whether or not to go on strike, and they still have to negotiate, they can't just strike even if their demands are met. |
| Date | 08:00:29, January 24, 2006 CET | From | Now And Zen Party | To | Debating the Striking in Solidarity Act, 2174 |
| Message | "Freedom is merely privilege extended, Unless enjoyed by one and all." "Employers cannot fire workers who go on strike." What about the freedom of the employers? Regarding taking votes, I've seen some unions bully their members into voting for a strike that the workers didn't even want to be in. I just wish that there was an option whereby the employers could sack the union officials, who, in the more militant unions, take unreasonable stances on matters, forcing things to an ugly head, rather than rationally debating and seeking a good outcome for all. Vote for this? No way. |
| Date | 08:01:48, January 24, 2006 CET | From | Now And Zen Party | To | Debating the Striking in Solidarity Act, 2174 |
| Message | P.S..... SGSP, you are obviously dyslexic... Shouldn't that be "The Internationale unties the human race"? |
| Date | 19:04:04, January 24, 2006 CET | From | New Path Socialist Party | To | Debating the Striking in Solidarity Act, 2174 |
| Message | We support this fine piece of legislation |
| Date | 00:21:53, January 25, 2006 CET | From | Caleb Party | To | Debating the Striking in Solidarity Act, 2174 |
| Message | we do not support. |
| Date | 01:46:00, January 25, 2006 CET | From | Communist Party of Saridan | To | Debating the Striking in Solidarity Act, 2174 |
| Message | Obviously, we support rational debate over immediate strike and we support the workers as well as the union leaders. We are not disrupting the freedom of the employers, we are just making sure that they do not hurt the freedom of the workers. The elimination of this loophole in the law is important. But not that important, since most industries in this country are run by Democratic Workers' Councils. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 222 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 278 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Submitting a bill without any proposals in it will not attract or detract voters. It will not raise your visibility or change your political position. |
| Random quote: “The people's war isn't just a war of destruction, it is also a war of construction. We will build new facilities, new hospitals, new farms. We will seek to improve the lives of the people around us. This struggle will be as costly as the struggle against the bourgeois army, and indeed will be even more damaging to the enemy.” - Comrade X, former Hulstrian politician |