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Bill: Options 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: August 2036
Description[?]:
| No one should be forced to join a union if it is their choice not to |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards labor unions.
Old value:: Trade unions may exist and all workers must have membership in one.
Current:
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invalid choice
Proposed: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Options Act |
| Message | its gonna get walloped, but im gonna try anyways |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Options Act |
| Message | Looking at the wording of the original piece, I don't think "should" counts as forcing people to join but we'll see what the others think. |
| Date | not recorded | From |  Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the Options Act |
| Message | Having workers outside unions creates a free-rider problem. Non-unionized workers are able to benefit from collective bargaining without paying union dues. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Options Act |
| Message | There will always be free-riders, be it in relation to actually working, paying tax or whatever. It's up to the individual workers to decide what they wish to do. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the Options Act |
| Message | But intentionally creating a free-rider problem where none existed before is patently stupid. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Options Act |
| Message | Something else that is patently stupid is forcing people to do something they don't want to. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Options Act |
| Message | The state is a form of co-ersion. We're trying to form a workers' state as a step towards socialism. Therefore we co-erse in the interests of the prletarian masses. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Options Act |
| Message | Since we have 'syndicalist' in our title, we would look a little silly if we voted for this. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Options Act |
| Message | Well, if we look at the wording of the previous one, I'm still not convinced people are forced to join a trade union. I am, however, tempted to make this more clear by favouring this bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 20 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Moderation reserves the discretion to declare RP laws invalid if the players supporting them are doing so in an excessively confrontational way. |
| Random quote: "Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better." - Niccolo Machiavelli |