FT: Rights of Working People Act of 2017 (debating)

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

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Sponsor: Harry S Truman, PM

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Alrighty! The purpose of this Act, in a nutshell, is to establish basic legal protections for working people in regards to wages and collective bargaining rights. Most of this should be fairly self-explanatory, but here's the basic rundown:

Section 2 protects the right of all workers to organize and bargain collectively with their employers, prohibits the regional government from forcing strikers back to work (except in a bonafide emergency), and closes a loophole in the definition of full-time work that allows chains to spread their employees' hours across multiple locations to avoid giving them benefits.

Section 3 indexes the regional minimum wage to the cost of living (with automatic annual adjustment for inflation).

Section 4 designates May as "Working People's History Month." (Hopefully, this won't be controversial.)