SENATE BILL: Amendment to the Labor Rights Act of 2012 (Law'd)

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What this amendment would do, essentially, is plug an apparent hole in our labor code, which currently allows companies to replace workers who go out on strike permanently, thus rendering the right to strike essentially a massive gamble. If we are to say that workers have the right to protest unfair working conditions, low wages, and the like, how are we to do so with a straight face when that right is dependent upon their boss not bringing in people to replace them when they do it?

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Final vote can be started tomorrow, and problems with that?

None here Mr. PPT.

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I can't support this. Replacement workers are people too and deserve the opportunity for potential employment.

I have little sympathy for those who would take someone else's job when they're out on strike. There are plenty of opportunities for fulfilling work out there that don't include stabbing someone else in the back to get them. Allowing companies to hire scabs only contributes to the race to the bottom that is the modern labor market.

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Aye.