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Bill: Union Rights Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Catholic Workers Union
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: August 2257
Description[?]:
| The DLF demands on behalf of all of Telamon's major trade and labor unions the following inalienable rights: 1. No union shall be prohibited in going on strike in sympathy with other unions and/or unorganized groups of laborers. 2. All workers shall have the right to strike for the advancement of their general welfare, and shall not be limited or forced into an arrangement of quasi-slavery by forcing them to maintain minimal service in their place of employment against their will. 3. The government will not make any provision to provide unnecessary hurdles to the exercising of the right to strike by any union or organization of workers, and shall leave the administration of union policy as much up to the unions as possible, while ensuring only that actions such as a strike are approved by a majority of voting union members. The Democratic Left Front assumes that it will have the support of the Moderate Labor Party in ensuring to workers these three essential rights. |
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: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Proposed: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Article 2
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, except certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society, have the right to strike.
Proposed: All workers have the right to strike.
Article 3
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, a majority of all members, regardless of if they vote or not must approve the strike action.
Proposed: 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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:20:09, July 20, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Patriots' Bloc | To | Debating the Union Rights Act |
| Message | Hm, hm, hm... we agree with Article 3 fully. However, Article 2 could lead to very dangerous situations. What if the police force went on strike? What if the police force went on strike and then started rioting? What a disaster that would be. We just changed Article 1 a few months ago, but we could support it. However, Article 2 prohibits us from voting for this. |
| Date | 05:21:56, July 20, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Union Rights Act |
| Message | How tremendously unfortunate, a Labor Party that does not recognize the self-restraint of labor unions it claims to represent. |
| Date | 06:41:26, July 20, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Patriots' Bloc | To | Debating the Union Rights Act |
| Message | We are not the Moderate Labor Union Party. We are the Moderate Labor Party, and we do what we feel is best for hard-working Telamonians. |
| Date | 15:22:20, July 20, 2006 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Union Rights Act |
| Message | Again, Britain 1980's. You're really quite terrifying to someone who remembers it: hospital nurses went on strike along with garbage men and grave-diggers. Trash and dead bodies were line along the sidewalk all winter. Never again and certainly never in Telamon. The reason for the topic of Article 3 being so stringent is that those that don't vote often don't vote because of intimidation; again, Arthur Scargill. Article 2 is recognised the world-over as dangerous. This brings us to article 1: yipes! Secondary strike action should be illegal for many reasons, most of them stemming from 1980's Britain. When the NUM (or NUM-skulls, as I like to call them: National Union of Miners) went on strike 1984-5, the Dock Workers' Union went on sympathy strike. Luckily, the Thatcher government was prepared and the NUM was defeated after about a year. The dock and shipyard workers' strike lasted less than a month and a similar lorry-drivers' strike lasted less than two months. Eventually, the NUM got verry violent, prohibitive picketing at active mines. Non-striking workers had to be driven ramrod-style through picketers to get to the mines. After this debacle, trades union law was succesfully changed to prohibit this kind of behaviour. Never could I cast a vote that would resolve Telamon to a similar fate. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 355 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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