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Bill: Enforceability of contracts (striking)

Details

Submitted by[?]: Liberty Party

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: January 2176

Description[?]:

When an employee chooses to strike, he is choosing to breach his contract. As such employers should be able to fire the employee for breach of contract.

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date01:00:39, January 25, 2006 CET
From Trigunian Social-Democratic Workers
ToDebating the Enforceability of contracts (striking)
MessageCare to explain what the breach is? I'd like to see a contract that forbids someone from striking.

Date01:22:50, January 25, 2006 CET
From Liberty Party
ToDebating the Enforceability of contracts (striking)
MessageOne of the basic components of any employment contract is the stipulation that the employee will actually go to work. If the employee refuses to work, that is a breach of contract.

If you are an employee working under an employment contract you can test this in the following way: just stop going to work. Sooner or later (depending on the vigour of the employer) you will probably find yourself unemployed. Then sue for wrongful dismissal and see what happens.

Date05:20:08, January 25, 2006 CET
From Trigunian Social-Democratic Workers
ToDebating the Enforceability of contracts (striking)
MessageYeah.
A hundred years ago people weren't allowed to strike and look what happened: revolutions. That made other gov'ts realize that it was wiser to let people strike than to be overthrown.

Maybe now you have the tools to opress the people like this. Maybe not.

Date06:00:50, January 25, 2006 CET
From Liberty Party
ToDebating the Enforceability of contracts (striking)
MessageYeah, revolutions were caused by strikes being illegal. I remember that famous quote from Marie Antoinette, "Let them eat cake, but don't you dare strike", and that was the end of the French monarchy.

The Russian revolution too, Lenin would have been perfectly happy with the rule of the Tsars if only he had been allowed to strike.

I hear that Sun Yat Sen was pretty satisfied with life in the Manchu dynasty except for the fact that he actually had to go to work when he said he would.

Enforcing a contract, voluntarily entered into, is not oppression. If you don't want to do something, don't sign a contract saying you'll do it, that's all.

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Voting

Vote Seats
yes
     

Total Seats: 379

no
  

Total Seats: 68

abstain
 

Total Seats: 70


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