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Bill: Trade Union Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Spiritualists' National 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: April 2334
Description[?]:
| Our trade union laws need to be reformed. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Employers are free to fire workers who go on strike.
Current: Employers can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons.
Proposed: Employers can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The workers' right to strike.
Old value:: All strikes are illegal.
Current: All workers have the right to strike but certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society have to ensure a minimal service.
Proposed: All workers have the right to strike but certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society have to ensure a minimal service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:25:56, December 23, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Trade Union Act |
| Message | While we wholly support the spirit of this bill we can't vote for it in its current form. From the employers' point of view the strikers will never have "reasonable reasons". The issue of sacking strikers is a matter between the employers and the unions. If an employer is prepared to accept the consequences they should be free to fire striking workers. As for article II, we feel workers that are CRITICAL to society should not be allowed to strike at all. |
| Date | 21:57:13, December 23, 2006 CET | From | Redneck Party | To | Debating the Trade Union Act |
| Message | Allowing any group of people to hold the people they work for of their own accord hostage is quite frankly criminal. Supporting strikes, and unions is the cries of the brain dead, and the morally bankrupt. |
| Date | 03:49:05, December 24, 2006 CET | From | Casa Nostra Divina Party | To | Debating the Trade Union Act |
| Message | We, the Casa Nostra Divina, in order to promote a more just and prosperous society for all our children, find all prospective strikes in our land to be unlawful, immoral and sinful. Without entertaining any doubt over a quality of our old legislation we call for the appropriation of more funds for the prosecution of those who go on strike and further sensible deliberation that will put into operation conditions more stringent to those who try to undermine the delivery of fruits being brought forth by our compassionate children who through their own hard work allow for a smooth functioning of our fiscal economy, public institutions and society as such. The heretics who do not try to redeem their mortal souls through work but who try to lead astray our faitful and laborious children should not have peace in our beautiful land but should have their alienable rights stripped away and be expatriated. |
| Date | 12:41:49, December 24, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Trade Union Act |
| Message | God bless the Casa Nostra Divina Party! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 27 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 73 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
| Random quote: "The Lord is a man of war" - Exodus 15:3 |