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Bill: Strikes Reform Act
Details
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: June 4399
Description[?]:
| Public sector strikes are a direct attack on the taxpayer for the benefit of a small portion of society. This must be ended. |
Proposals
Article 1
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.
Proposed: All workers, except public employees, have the right to strike.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:12:30, May 26, 2018 CET | From | Gaduridos Labour [PAG] | To | Debating the Strikes Reform Act |
| Message | What absolute nonsense! All working men and women in this great nation have the right to negotiate with their employer for better wages and conditions. That the NLP would think to create special rights and privileges for the State above all other businesses is not only a slight against Labour values, but a confused and tired assault on their own claims to be a party of the free market. This massive intervention in the free operation of labour negotiation exposes the NLP as not a party of business, or the free market - but one that is bought and paid for by forces that seek to oppress and regulate and toughen the lives at hardworking people to the benefit of the NLPs donors and special interests. We will not stand for it! |
| Date | 01:44:54, May 26, 2018 CET | From | Republican New Movement | To | Debating the Strikes Reform Act |
| Message | An interesting argument from the Labour party. Interesting, but flawed. Should the people of Gaduridos be held hostage, having their services disrupted due to the whims of the very organisations that undoubtedly bankroll the Labour Party? Certainly not! |
| Date | 03:31:34, May 26, 2018 CET | From | NLP | To | Debating the Strikes Reform Act |
| Message | In private sectors, there are alternatives - strikes can't functionally halt operations. "A minimal service" can be said to mean simply the service of one person. With the state, there is no alternative to certain services. This would, as the RNM pointed out, allow the nation to be held hostage - certainly, the state must be able to operate on more than "a minimal service", which could consist of only one person? Should the state functions be given an alternative - an alternative that would allow it to function like a private institution, we would agree that this would be an attack on the ideals of free market. But free markets have competition as a core principle - that any may enter as any part of the free market - and when there is none, as in the case of the state, then it cannot be a free market - the same rules do not apply. Labor's claims of hypocrisy are founded on simply a poor understanding of economics! Those who vote against this: Should the public employee misuse the limit of the idea of "minimal service", and cause mass disruption to society, then the suffering of the people of our great nation shall be on your heads! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 300 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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