SENATE BILL: Employer Non-Interference Act of 2013 (Redraft Signed)

[President Tyrion]

I don't like a minimum fine being instituted, because that largely functions to burden a smaller businesses over large ones.

[President Tyrion]

A percentage would be best, in my opinion. I'll offer an amendment as soon as Yank processes this one.

[President Tyrion]

I have an amendment.

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[President Tyrion]

So you're going to have union representatives wandering around summer camps and CIA HQ?

Are summer camp counselors and CIA agents not allowed to unionize?

[President Tyrion]

Aye

[President Tyrion]

So you're going to have union representatives wandering around summer camps and CIA HQ?

Are summer camp counselors and CIA agents not allowed to unionize?

Summer Camp Counselors maybe, but wouldn't unionizing the CIA be problematic? I mean, it is kind of hard to hold a vote on unionizing when your embedded in Iran, without blowing the agent's cover.

Well, you're neither required to join a union nor vote to join one. Agents embedded in Iran or anywhere comprise a very small portion of the CIA's assets. Those who are ready and willing to join a union certainly should be able to do so.

[President Tyrion]

So you're going to have union representatives wandering around summer camps and CIA HQ?

Are summer camp counselors and CIA agents not allowed to unionize?

Summer Camp Counselors maybe, but wouldn't unionizing the CIA be problematic? I mean, it is kind of hard to hold a vote on unionizing when your embedded in Iran, without blowing the agent's cover.

Well, you're neither required to join a union nor vote to join one. Agents embedded in Iran or anywhere comprise a very small portion of the CIA's assets. Those who are ready and willing to join a union certainly should be able to do so.

I am on the whole somewhat of a private sector unions only type guy precisely because when you get into situations like this it isn't the corporate big wig's fat bank account you are striking against but the children, national security etc etc. At the same time I do want some means of protecting these people who provide so valuable a service to the country.

Well, a union's only function isn't to strike. I understand that unions in the public sector tend to have more leverage (the BART strike is a good example), but a union's first and foremost goal is to facilitate collective bargaining, and that's not necessarily the path to a strike, unless there's a huge gap in negotiation.

[President Tyrion]

So you're going to have union representatives wandering around summer camps and CIA HQ?

Are summer camp counselors and CIA agents not allowed to unionize?

My point is that there are some workplaces of a sensitive nature (ex. caring for children, dealing with classified material) that have understandable restrictions on who is allowed to hang about.

How does this change that?

[President Tyrion]

So you're going to have union representatives wandering around summer camps and CIA HQ?

Are summer camp counselors and CIA agents not allowed to unionize?

My point is that there are some workplaces of a sensitive nature (ex. caring for children, dealing with classified material) that have understandable restrictions on who is allowed to hang about.

How does this change that?

1c. "full and total access"

Hm, I see. Ok, how about this amendment? I made up some form names.

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[President Tyrion]

Final vote on the Employer Non-Interference Act of 2013:

Aye (4): bore, Gass3268, TNF and TyriontheImperialist
Nay (4): Maxwell, NC Yankee, Spiral and TyriontheImperialist
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (0):
Vacant Seats (2): Napoleon and Xahar

With time having expired and the vote tied 4-4, a tiebreaker is thus needed from the Vice President.

I didn't know a Senator could vote both for and against something .. ?

I think it's tmth's Nay vote which should be in place of mine, but the net result is the same.

[President Tyrion]

NAY

Even with the possibility of a redraft from Duke?

[President Tyrion]

Aye