I would like to urge everybody to vote against this repeal. It will be a blow for worker's rights, and as we all know unhappy workers are bad for production and bad for the economy.
Originally Posted by David6
1- GRANTS blanket permission for all strikes that are severely hazardous to health and safety, law and order, and public well being, or that indirectly endanger civilian lives;
The resolution clearly states:
3. EXEMPTS from the right granted in clause 2:
a. Strikes by personnel of the armed forces;
b. Strikes not authorized by a union;
c. Strikes which directly endanger the life of citizens in a nation, such as but not limited to medical and police personnel;
You may be of the opinion that a strike should not convey any threat. That is what I gather from this point. By doing that you effectively say that a strike should be toothless, so that workers have nothing to fall back to if their employer exploits them.
2- FAILS to enact a minimum threshold for union membership or set limitations on multiple membership, thereby effectively legalizing all wildcat strikes;
You can make laws about that, as long as they do not interfere with the right of people to form or join unions.
Or you could create proper laws protecting workers, so they don't need to form or join unions. Up to you. Don't you love the freedom the UN gives you?
3- FORCES member nations to provide 'independent arbitration' with the unlimited power to control the actions of union workers and employers in all cases in which strikes are prohibited without any assurance of the non-bias of these groups
It says independent. That means it should not have any bias towards any particular side.
If you fear that that means your firefighters will be able to get a fair pay for a fair day's work without having to go on strike endangering lives, you are right.
4- PERMITS all military personnel to engage in industrial action, such as work-slow and work-to-rule, and further to join violent international federations, which clearly represents a critical threat to national security;
Oh please, you can't be serious or you are a poor reader. Millitairy personnel is exempted from the right to strike. Other actions are not mentioned. If your armed forces are threatening national security, you have a problem with your armed forced - not with unions. They will find other ways to overthrow your government.
THEREFORE CONCLUDING that the resolution in question not only provides a mandate for dangerous and irresponsible activities,
activities which your people are apparently prone to; as if being able to come up for their rights suddenly makes everybody a terrorist.
but further that it in no way guarantees the fair and just protections of union workers,
Again, you read the resolution poorly. It clearly gives people the right to join or form a union, enabling them to protect their rights as workers against employers, who generally are in a more powerfull position. You need balance. That's what the resolution gave.
NOTING that the repeal of this flawed legislation shall not require the disbanding of national or international unions, but will instead empower nations to prevent the abuses herein mentioned,
No, repealing will mean that in the nations where the granted rights are needed the most, will be no longer in place.
Vote against, in the interest of your people and your economy.
