[GA - PASSED] Fairness In Collective Bargaining

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Fairness In Collective Bargaining
Category: Regulation | Area of Effect: Labour Rights
Proposed by: Cretox State | Onsite Topic​
The World Assembly,

Believing that labor unions are essential in allowing workers to negotiate benefits, freedom from exploitation, and fair compensation on equal footing with their employers,

Commending the efforts of prior WA legislation to strike a reasonable balance between the necessity of effective collective bargaining and the public good, and

Convinced that a more expansive resolution on the subject is necessary, in order to solidify the negotiating ability of workers and provide needed protections for employers where unions are concerned, hereby:
  1. Defines "interference" as any acts intended to place or keep a labor union under the control of an employer whose workers are represented by that union as a bargaining unit;
  2. Prohibits the interference of employers and labor unions in the establishment, functioning, or administration of labor unions;
  3. Prohibits employers from:
    1. unduly impinging on the ability of multiple workers to act in concert to protect their rights; or
    2. discriminating against workers for engaging in concerted activities to protect their rights;
  4. Prohibits labor unions from:
    1. coercing workers in the exercise of their rights or an employer in its choice of bargaining representative;
    2. deliberately influencing an employer to discriminate against certain workers;
    3. requiring excessive dues; or
    4. deliberately influencing an employer to pay for unneeded workers, excepting paid leave and severance-related benefits;
  5. Requires employers and the labor unions that lawfully represent said employers' workers to make a good-faith effort to negotiate with one another;
  6. Mandates that member nations:
    1. establish, if such does not already exist, and maintain an effective system to enforce labor law in relation to collective bargaining and labor practices; and
    2. allow labor unions to deliberately influence an employer to cease doing business with another employer;
  7. Urges member nations to:
    1. promote union membership through union security agreements; and
    2. implement more expansive regulations protecting the ability of workers to collectively bargain with employers.
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Note: Only votes from TNP WA nations and NPA personnel will be counted. If you do not meet these requirements, please add (non-WA) or something of that effect to your vote.
Voting Instructions:
  • Vote For if you want the Delegate to vote For the resolution.
  • Vote Against if you want the Delegate to vote Against the resolution.
  • Vote Abstain if you want the Delegate to abstain from voting on this resolution.
  • Vote Present if you are personally abstaining from this vote.
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Fairness in Collective Bargaining was passed 8,677 votes to 4,627 (65.2% support).
 
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IFV - For
Overview
This proposal aims to complement the existing body of WA labor law by eliminating company unions (labor unions dominated by the employer whose workers they purport to represent), protecting blockade action, and establishing expectations from both labor unions and employers.

Recommendation
Despite being inherently limited in scope, "Fairness in Collective Bargaining" nevertheless confers a diverse set of benefits upon people within member nations in the area of labor negotiation. Much of the proposal is devoted to establishing good-faith behavior on the part of both labor unions and employers, its abolishment of company unions effectively reinforces the intent of existing WA labor law.

For these reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends voting For the at-vote General Assembly proposal, "Fairness in Collective Bargaining."
 
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Present. No reason to convince me to vote against although I don't really know if this is a proposal that should be there or not.
 
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  1. allow labor unions to deliberately influence an employer to cease doing business with another employer

My only concern is that this clause might be used by workers to influence the employer to stop doing business with an org that might have a lot of ability, ethnicity, gender based minorities. This clause essentially protects the union from engaging in discriminatory practices. It may also coerce the employer top stop doing business with competing as companies in some sectors occasionally do like warehousing.

@Cretox State Can you please clarify in case I am interpreting this improperly?
 
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  1. allow labor unions to deliberately influence an employer to cease doing business with another employer

My only concern is that this clause might be used by workers to influence the employer to stop doing business with an org that might have a lot of ability, ethnicity, gender based minorities. This clause essentially protects the union from engaging in discriminatory practices. It may also coerce the employer top stop doing business with competing as companies in some sectors occasionally do like warehousing.

@Cretox State Can you please clarify in case I am interpreting this improperly?
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A bit late to the party, but that clause exists to protect blockade strikes. I don't think it would open the door to discriminatory practices any more than unions can already push for discrimination during negotiations with employers (though that seems like a strange thing for a union to do).
 
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