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Bill: Workers Freedom Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Alorian National Progress 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: December 2210
Description[?]:
| Democracy in the Labour Movement is of the utmost importance to the ANPP, it is for this reason we call for for the repeal of legislation requiring trade unions to hold a ballot before striking. This law allows government, bosses and trade union leaders to bureaucratically prevent workers from taking immediate steps to defend their rights such as wildcat strikes. Although apparently democratic in intention this law limits the freedom of workers to defend their class and as such in anti-democratic. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Trade union strike ballots.
Old value:: 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.
Current: 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.
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 | 11:45:41, April 04, 2006 CET | From | Bureaucratic Technocracy Party | To | Debating the Workers Freedom Bill |
| Message | Oh good, so the Trade Unions can drag unwilling workers around to do what they want. No. |
| Date | 13:39:57, April 04, 2006 CET | From | Alorian National Progress Party | To | Debating the Workers Freedom Bill |
| Message | That is not a situation we wish to see and ANPP activists who are members of unions are at the forefront of those fighting to make sure unions are accountable to their members, this law however makes unions less democratic not more as it limits the capacity of workers on the shopfloor to act and potentially puts power in the hands of collaborationist union leaderships who can control the timing and terms of ballots in such a way as to prevent grassroots activism being effective. The issue is not whether unions should be democratic but whether government has the right to force them to have a ballot every time they strike for it to be legal. |
| Date | 20:32:37, April 04, 2006 CET | From | People's Socialist Front of Aloria | To | Debating the Workers Freedom Bill |
| Message | We belive in Democratic Socailism, which mean voting before going to strike, so we shall abstain. |
| Date | 22:18:35, April 04, 2006 CET | From | Alorian National Progress Party | To | Debating the Workers Freedom Bill |
| Message | Surely as a democratic socialist you are not in favour of the state dictating when workers can and cannot strike? Read the debate. |
| Date | 23:00:25, April 04, 2006 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Workers Freedom Bill |
| Message | As a laissez-faire party, we find "Trade Unions are not required by law to hold a ballot before striking" a reducing of gov't economic restrictions. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 209 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 391 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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