SENATE BILL: Imports Labor Oversight Committee Bill (Law'd)

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

FoxConn Embargo & Creation of Import Labor Oversight Committee Bill

1) Embargo of all products manufactured at the plants where the suicides have occurred.
2) Creation of import oversight committee that would make recommendations to the Senate and the President to enact legislation to protect workers across the world.
3) Secretary position in the game which will give the recommendations of #2.

Sponsor: Seatown

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Seatown, you only have a "short time" to advocate for this (24 hours).


Sounds almost terminal doesn't it? I guarrantee it will be for the bill if you don't comply.

[ModerateCoward]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
Pretty simple really, there is long history of Foxconn worker abuse of unimaginable scale, so the least we could do is not support it.

[ModerateCoward]

Also an amendment:

FoxConn Embargo & Creation of Import Labor Oversight Committee Bill

1) Embargo of all products manufactured at the plants where the suicides have occurred.
2) Creation of import oversight committee that would make recommendations to the Senate and the President to enact legislation to protect workers across the world.
3) GM, SoEA, and SoIA in the game will give the recommendations of action for the game(to fulfill #2)

Sponsor: Seatown

[Beet]

Foxconn's suicide rate per the size of its labor force is actually lower than the general population.

[ModerateCoward]

Foxconn's suicide rate per the size of its labor force is actually lower than the general population.

Apples to oranges. What's the general population's suicide rate while working?

[Beet]

Foxconn's suicide rate per the size of its labor force is actually lower than the general population.

Apples to oranges. What's the general population's suicide rate while working?

So you're saying Foxconn saved workers' lives by offering them jobs?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/media-gets-its-facts-wrong-working-at-foxconn-significantly-cuts-suicide-risk/1356

[Senator Ben]

I'm going to need some convincing on this.  I also need to hear from the SoEA and the GM on the geopolitical/economic impact of this bill; I'm currently leaning against it.

[Governor Scott]

I echo Senator Ben's requests.  I am also going to have to be convinced on this.

[Redalgo]

I concur with Ben and Scott thus far.

An emphasis on fair trade is important to me. Nonetheless, without an overview of what kind of impact this would have on people living and working in the places in question, I am quite reluctant to impose my moral worldview at the risk of diminishing the living conditions of the very people I would like to assist. Singling out FoxConn is also a little awkward from my perspective. Would it not be an even better idea to embargo all groups that are found to violate a certain set of standards concerning labor rights?

On the other hand, the committee you are proposing sounds like a great idea to me.

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I have always been very suspect of Populist causes, because typically they lead to people doing stuff out of emotional anger, which may not advance their cause. In the worst case they are self-defeating and counterproductive.

We must be carefull when engaging in a politically correct crusade to protect the poor, unfortunate people of the third world from sweat shops, that we don't get what we want to the extent that we drive them into the grave from starvation.

I thus add my name to the now fantastic four of Senators who need to be convinced.

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

FoxConn Embargo & Creation of Import Labor Oversight Committee Bill

1) Embargo of all products manufactured at the plants where the suicides have occurred.
2) Creation of import oversight committee that would make recommendations to the Senate and the President to enact legislation to protect workers across the world.
3) GM, SoEA, and SoIA in the game will give the recommendations of action for the game(to fulfill #2)

Sponsor Feedback: Origination
Status: Senators have 24 horus to object.

[ModerateCoward]

So how about we just create a foreign labor relations department then?

[Governor Scott]

So how about we just create a foreign labor relations department then?

Don't we already have the SoEA to deal with foreign labor relations, technically?

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Does the sponsor have a response to the Senator?

[ModerateCoward]

So how about we just create a foreign labor relations department then?

Don't we already have the SoEA to deal with foreign labor relations, technically?

Well do we have any funding for the IRL part, so creation of said department, and are there any examples of SoEA actually  dealing with foreign labor relations?

[Governor Scott]

So how about we just create a foreign labor relations department then?

Don't we already have the SoEA to deal with foreign labor relations, technically?

Well do we have any funding for the IRL part, so creation of said department, and are there any examples of SoEA actually  dealing with foreign labor relations?

I don't believe so, but that could become a priority of of the SoEA.  Formally assigning that duty is probably a more ideal way to approach this issue.

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Missed this somehow with the addition of another page of posts.

The amendment has passed.

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What is next on this?

[ModerateCoward]

What is next on this?

I'm going to amend it this and call a final vote

Bill reads as following following amendment:

FoxConn Embargo & Creation of Imports Labor Oversight Committee Bill

1) Embargo of all products manufactured at the plants where the suicides have occurred.
1) Creation of import oversight committee that would make recommendations to the Senate and the President to enact legislation to protect workers across the world. Funding $10 million per year.
2) GM, SoEA, and SoIA in the game will give the recommendations of action for the game to report the committee's findings.
3) Investigation of FoxConn plants.

[Prez Duke]

How will Atlasians get their iPad's and iPhones if this crazy bill passes? Can you imagine the damage it would do to one of Atlasia's most successful companies? Suicide is awful but frankly it happens. We may as well ban all goods coming from Asia.

[Redalgo]

I strongly support the amendment proposed and now intend to cast a vote in the affirmative.

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

FoxConn Embargo & Creation of Imports Labor Oversight Committee Bill

1) Embargo of all products manufactured at the plants where the suicides have occurred.
1) Creation of import oversight committee that would make recommendations to the Senate and the President to enact legislation to protect workers across the world. Funding $10 million per year.
2) GM, SoEA, and SoIA in the game will give the recommendations of action for the game to report the committee's findings.
3) Investigation of FoxConn plants.

Sponsor Feedback: Origination
Status: Senators have 24 hours to object.

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Amendment passed.

[ModerateCoward]

Go to a final vote if nobody objects?