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Bill: Withdraw from the Worker's Basic Rights Agreement
Details
Submitted by[?]: Volkspartei für Freiheit und Demokratie
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill proposes the withdrawal from a treaty. It will require half of the legislature to vote in favor[?]. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 4208
Description[?]:
| This is a piece of incomplete foreign policy left by the previous socialist cabinet, it has in our opinion become redundant and an obstacle to market reforms. |
Proposals
Article 1
Withdraw from the Worker's Basic Rights Agreement.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:26:31, May 09, 2017 CET | From | Volkskommunistische Partei | To | Debating the Withdraw from the Worker's Basic Rights Agreement |
| Message | Firstly, this ratification was passed just months ago with 321 out of 399 seats in favour. Hardly just the work of a socialist government. Second, I must challenge you on the grounds of incomplete: which part is incomplete? How so? Finally I must declare that your very opposition to this is representative of how heartless and deluded your policy is. The WBRA supplies basic rights to workers. BASIC rights. Which parts do you specifically disagree with? The minimum wage which ensures that the workers are given enough to eat? Is it the protection from institutional racism? Perhaps the basic provisions for a worker's democratic right to strike? What is the issue? Volker Wittke VP Leader |
| Date | 17:19:39, May 10, 2017 CET | From | Volkspartei für Freiheit und Demokratie | To | Debating the Withdraw from the Worker's Basic Rights Agreement |
| Message | Herr Wittke, A fixed minimum wage actually hurts the same low-rung workers it vows to protect. The minimum wage is an artificial, state-imposed value for an individual worker. The real value of a worker should be decided in the open market. For example, if a young worker is applying for his first job as a machinist at a factory, the owner of the factory knows that the worker won't produce as many widgets as a more experienced employee. For the factory owner, this employee will clearly bring in less money. Therefore, he deserves a lower hourly pay. If the factory owner is forced to pay that young worker an artificially high minimum wage, then he will choose not to hire the worker, because it won't make financial sense. So, in this scenario, instead of working for less than minimum wage until he gets more experience, the young worker is now unemployed. Basic economics, Herr Wittke. Rudolf Stranz Chairperson of the FVD |
| Date | 18:18:11, May 11, 2017 CET | From | Volkskommunistische Partei | To | Debating the Withdraw from the Worker's Basic Rights Agreement |
| Message | Well this really is a majestic scene. This anarchist lunatic is lecturing me on basic economics. A minimum wage does not hurt the worker. It ensures that the worker is given enough to eat. But your party seems averse to human life, especially for the poor: first there's your murderous health policy, now this. And for those who are unemployed, we shall provide welfare at a good level. So really the only people this treaty hurts are you, because the rest of the Bundestag has the basic sense to reject a withdrawal from the treaty and make you look like an absolute fool. Although you seem to do for yourself. There is no point in debating this further: clearly you wish only to abolish all basic human dignity for the poor. Luckily the rest of the Bundestag isn't insane sadists. Volker Wittke VP Leader |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 349 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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