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Bill: Secondary Strike Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Socialist 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: May 2178
Description[?]:
| The Free Socialist Party believes that trade unions should have the right to support other unions with a sympaty strike. |
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: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Proposed: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:43:17, January 28, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Democrat Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Act |
| Message | law is fine as is. if we change it to the proposed law, all unions wil strike whenever anyone else does, meaning we will never have a fully operational industires |
| Date | 15:09:18, January 29, 2006 CET | From | Free Socialist Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Act |
| Message | Unions will rarely elect to go on sympathy strikes, since they don’t stand to gain anything themselves. This bill would just give them the option. |
| Date | 06:07:59, January 30, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Democrat Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Act |
| Message | people will always take a day off whenever they can, dont be stupid |
| Date | 14:45:42, January 30, 2006 CET | From | Vanuku Progressive Party | To | Debating the Secondary Strike Act |
| Message | The LDP in both of their debate messages did not support this bill but then they vote in favor of it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 149 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 221 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 190 |
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