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

[LastVoter]

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.

[LastVoter]

Also an amendment:

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[LastVoter]

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?

[LastVoter]

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

[LastVoter]

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?

[LastVoter]

What is next on this?

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

Bill reads as following following amendment:

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[LastVoter]

Go to a final vote if nobody objects?

[LastVoter]

Aye

[LastVoter]

I was initially going to vote for this, but Sbane raises a valid point.  How can we just deliberately say we're going to investigate FoxConn plants without opening talks with China about this?

Part of investigating the plants is opening the dialogue with China.

[LastVoter]

Aye