Agricultural Policy Act of 2015 (Final vote)

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Certainly nothing Maoist about giving farmers the right to collectively bargain and distribute their produce for a fair price.

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I object to the proposed amendment.

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I'm not a big fan of section 2 either; I feel like it could put so called working farmers at a competitive disadvantage and ultimately pull many of them out of business.

How would giving farmers the right to form unions put them at a disadvantage?

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I'm not a big fan of section 2 either; I feel like it could put so called working farmers at a competitive disadvantage and ultimately pull many of them out of business.

How would giving farmers the right to form unions put them at a disadvantage?

Don't you think the food distributors would then be far more likely to seek business from the major farms   (i.e. those with farmhands and with many paid workers)?

That said, giving them the right to bargain is a different thing than forcing them to join a union, so that's why I haven't proposed an amendment to remove that section.

I'm okay with adjusting the nature of that section if need be. The idea was to give collective bargaining rights specifically to those who don't employ others, which would be keeping in line with our general idea of collective bargaining as being a process for workers. Farmers who don't employ anyone else have more in common with workers than do big time farmers who employ a lot of farmhands, who are closer to capitalists by nature.

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Amendment is unfriendly

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Nay

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Amendment is friendly.

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Could we not just discuss proposals for modifying this out in the open?

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If you're feeling a bit lost, I'd encourage you to re-read the thread.

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Amendment is friendly.

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I motion for a final vote.

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Aye