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Bill: DB-7 | Workers and Monopolies Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Duntrekkerbond
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: May 4360
Description[?]:
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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.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Current: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Proposed: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Policy on monopolies (this general law is superceded by other laws relating to specific parts of the economy).
Old value:: Monopolies are forbidden, and are actively broken up.
Current: Monopolies are forbidden, and are actively broken up.
Proposed: There is no policy on monopolies, they are unregulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:51:03, March 08, 2018 CET | From |  Progressive Future Party | To | Debating the DB-7 | Workers and Monopolies Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, While the Progressive Future Party supports Article 2 and 3, the PFP can never, and will never, support the existence of monopolies. Willem Robinson, PFP Party Leader |
| Date | 22:51:31, March 08, 2018 CET | From | Rainbow Party | To | Debating the DB-7 | Workers and Monopolies Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The Rainbow Party is also in support of Articles 2 and 3, but we cannot allow the existence of monopolies. Monopolies can gain too much power over an economy by dominating a certain sector, and may threaten the integrity of the other articles in the future. Letting the monopolies go unregulated will be a great harm to the Saridan population. Marius Streicher, Leader of the Rainbow Party |
| Date | 04:13:02, March 09, 2018 CET | From | Duntrekkerbond | To | Debating the DB-7 | Workers and Monopolies Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, This act of deregulating the economy would only help support worker council based companies to expand and have real control over their market, an act to that would help support our working class even more than before! A freer market only helps support our multiple classes to advance forwards and gain even more capital gain than previously thought, I would have thought that you would support a stronger lower and middle class. As once said by a great man "The freer the market, the freer the people!" --- Philippus De La Rey Staatspresident Duntrekkerbond |
| Date | 11:45:35, March 09, 2018 CET | From | Progressive Future Party | To | Debating the DB-7 | Workers and Monopolies Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, The principles of the free market is based upon the ideas of competition and consumer sovereignty. In order for any economic system that leans in the direction of a free to be successful, it needs high competition to cause innovation and constant improvement of products available to the people. Any concept of consumer sovereignty and competition is crushed when economic sectors are dominated by a single business, causing wealth to massively become concentrated in the hands of a micro-sized group of individuals while consumers suffer from shoddy, cheap products that monopolies can sell for whatever price they desire. The idea of a monopoly also crushes the rights of the workers, who are forced to accept poor wages by the company they work for, because no trade union can successfully take on a monopoly without military or government intervention. If the Duntrekkerbond really desires to put the control of our entire economy into the hands of a few, profit-driven individuals, they need to give up the delusion that deregulation and monopolies are great for the consumers and workers of Saridan and realize the consequences of their desires. Willem Robinson, PFP Party Leader |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 188 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 167 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
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