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Bill: Rerum Novarum
Details
Submitted by[?]: Factio Aurorianus
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: December 4399
Description[?]:
| A bill to normalize the dignity of the working class with the rights and obligations of the capital class. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Current: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Current: Prostitution is illegal.
Proposed: Prostitution is legal but not recognized under government employment regulation policy.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards labor unions.
Old value:: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Current: Trade unions may exist and all workers must have membership in one.
Proposed: Trade unions may exist and all workers must have membership in one.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government requires all businesses to be run by Democratic Workers' Councils.
Current: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Proposed: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Secondary strike action.
Old value:: Only closely related trade unions can walk out on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Current: Only closely related trade unions can walk out 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 | 22:28:53, May 26, 2018 CET | From | Factio Republicana Socialistica | To | Debating the Rerum Novarum |
| Message | Senators, We wholeheartedly agree with several of these proposals, particularly the full legalization of all forms of strike action and requiring formal membership in trade unions from all workers. Our own economic platform, based on the economic theory of Distributism, is heavily indebted to Aurorian Social Teaching and the encyclicals of several Arch-Patriarchs on economic matters. However we believe that some of these measures, while necessary in a capitalist system, can be harmful and counter-productive in a Cooperative economy that we have established in Selucia over the years. The minimum wage in particular we believe is of utmost importance in a system dominated by oligopoly capitalism. But in an economic system ruled by worker-owners, as was established in Selucia when the State-Owned Enterprises were sold to their employees, the minimum wage ultimately hurts the smallest companies, that lack the resources for a minimum wage, and threatens to lead to a gradual consolidation of capital in a few hands, undoing our economic reforms for the past few decades and rendering our legislation against monopolies and for cooperative ownership dead letter. If several of these proposals were introduced separately we would wholeheartedly vote in favor. But as it stands we cannot in good faith vote for a bill that threatens to undo the Distributist economy we have labored so hard to establish for the past thirty years. Adeodatus Nymphidius Senator |
| Date | 22:36:02, May 26, 2018 CET | From | Factio Aurorianus | To | Debating the Rerum Novarum |
| Message | Senators, We respect the position of the Factio Republicana that Senator Nymphidius has so eloquently illustrated. It is our hope that should this bill not pass then we would have their support on the measures where they do agree. Fr. Ambrose |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 704 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 46 |
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