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Bill: Strike Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Shuggoth Progressive 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: March 2190
Description[?]:
This bill would reform Luthori strike laws as follows: 1. All employees may strike if they wish without the interference of the State. 2. Employers may terminate striking workers without the interference of the State. 3. Unions are free to make their own rules on how they handle striking, without interference of the State. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Current: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Proposed: Employers are free to fire workers who go on strike.
Article 2
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.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The workers' right to strike.
Old value:: All workers have the right to strike but certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society have to ensure a minimal service.
Current: All workers have the right to strike but certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society have to ensure a minimal service.
Proposed: All workers have the right to strike.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Trade union strike ballots.
Old value:: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, a majority of all members, regardless of if they vote or not must approve the strike action.
Current: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, majority approval of those that vote is needed from its members.
Proposed: Trade unions are not required by law to hold a ballot before striking.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 08:37:47, February 22, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Strike Reform Act |
Message | This will just lead to very bad employer-employee relations. Without regulation companies will simply threaten to sack or discriminate against employees just for joining a union. |
Date | 08:39:27, February 22, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Strike Reform Act |
Message | And article three is a joke! Critial workers include His Imperial Majesty's Armed Forces (which includes those guarding and manning our Nuclear, Biological and Chemical installations), Fire Brigades, Police Forces and Ambulance Brigades. We can't have them striking. |
Date | 13:09:14, February 22, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Democratic Party | To | Debating the Strike Reform Act |
Message | I support articles 2-4 but am deeply opposed to article 1, however I will vote yes to this and put forward a bill reversing article 1 if this passes. |
Date | 13:17:32, February 22, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Strike Reform Act |
Message | Has the PNF considered the impact of article three on national defence and the instruments of state control. Leaving our Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Installations unmanned and undefended for a few days while "workers" strike and terrorists loot them of their dangerous goods seems nothing short of imbecilic to me! |
Date | 14:53:55, February 22, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Strike Reform Act |
Message | The SPP have become a corporate lackey. How they can proclaim that they are a pro-civil rights party when they take away employees rights is beyond me. |
Date | 17:35:47, February 22, 2006 CET | From | Shuggoth Progressive Party | To | Debating the Strike Reform Act |
Message | Not at all. We give weapons to both employers and employees. If a business is behaving badly towards their striking workers, they risk setting off sympathy strikes, and facing not only pressure from their own stockholders, but also pressure from other business leaders! Businesses need some recourse to the amount of power this gives to unions and their members. And Unionists, this has nothing to do with joining a union. Workers can only be terminated for striking. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes | Total Seats: 336 | |||||
no |
Total Seats: 414 | |||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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