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  • This House would allow members of the armed forces to form labour unions

    Infoslide

    A labour union is an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect their rights and interests

    AJC 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-01-01

  • This House would allow members of the armed forces to form labour unions

    Infoslide

    A labour union is an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect their rights and interests

    AJC 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-01-01

  • This house would implement the Fair Play package in all professional sport leagues

    Infoslide

    The Fair Play package is a set of regulations for a sport league. It includes setting hard caps in salaries, bonuses, club debts, the number of shares one actor can have in the club and the homegrown rule: requiring clubs to have a minimum number of players from their domestic country.

    Winter Bonanza 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-01-01

  • This house would require companies to hire a significant percentage of employees without university degrees across all levels of their organization.

    CUSID East Atlantic Championship 2023 · Grand Finals · 2023-01-01

  • This house supports the rise of "gig nursing".

    Infoslide

    Gig nursing is a type of short-term employment that offers nurses a chance to pick up shifts in various healthcare facilities around the country. It has become an increasingly popular alternative to traditional full-time employment as many hospitals are temporarily short-staffed or require more nurses for certain operations at any given point in time. An individual who participates in gig nursing are given more short-term, flexible contracts, but in return have little job security and employment benefits.

    Fuhsing Debate Open 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-01-01

  • This house would temporarily and significantly relax minimum labour standards in times of unusually high unemployment, including workplace health and safety standards, minimum wage, working hours restrictions etc.

    Central Novs 2022 · Round 3 · 2022-11-26

  • This house, as a young university graduate, would quiet quit at their day job

    Infoslide

    Quiet quitting is an application of work-to-rule, in which employees work within defined work hours and engage solely in activities within those hours. Despite the name, the philosophy of quiet quitting is not necessarily connected to quitting a job outright, but rather doing precisely what the job requires

    Central Novs 2022 · Round 6 · 2022-11-26

  • This house would ban copyright assignments.

    Infoslide

    Copyright refers to a series of legal protections granted to the creators of a creative work, giving them exclusive rights to the copy, distribute, publish, display, or modify that work. A copyright assignment is a process by which a copyright holder can transfer all or some of their copyright rights to a third party. ex. an author may transfer their right to publish and distribute a work to a publisher. An employee making creative works for a company may be required to transfer copyright to their employer.

    Central Novs 2022 · Round 5 · 2022-11-26

  • C: That labour unions in the tertiary education sector should deprioritise strikes in favour of administration bans (i.e. continuing to teach but refusing to grade papers, oversee exams, answer emails, etc.)

    Campbelltown Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2022 · Round 1 · 2022-11-23

  • This house believes that labor activists should predominantly pursue permeationism over the rank-and-file union-building strategies.

    Infoslide

    Permeationism is a strategy in which labor activists insert themselves within the existing union bureaucracy to try and shape its politics and practices (e.g., by joining the National Labor Relations Board). In contrast, the rank-and-file strategy requires activists taking non-managerial jobs in industries deemed strategically important by the labor movement, with the goal of unionizing the workforce directly (e.g., Rhodes Scholar Jaz Brisack becoming a barista at Starbucks).

    USUDC 2022 · 6 · 2022-11-05

  • This house would introduce a socialized care system in which all people needing care (ex. the elderly, people with disabilities) are cared for by workers selected by a national draft

    Infoslide

    Slum tourism is a practice of people of comparatively wealthier countries visiting impoverished places for observing human life in poverty first-hand.

    Lithuanian Novice Debating Tournament 2021-2022 · 3 · 2022-10-29

  • That South Korea should re-open the Kaesong Industrial Complex.

    Infoslide

    The Kaesong Industrial Complex provided South Korean companies with cheaper labor costs, while providing North Korea with critical hard currency

    Macquarie Open 2022 · Round 4 · 2022-10-29

  • This house would allow US cities to petition courts to write down their pension obligations

    Infoslide

    In 2012, San Bernadino, a city in California, filed for bankruptcy. Of the $280 million debts it owed, $192 million were pension obligations. In cases where cities cannot pay their debts, they must file for bankruptcy. Creditors are subject to a restructuring process overseen by the courts, in which creditors are entitled to a share of tax revenues, and ownership of some city property, and have to take a discount on their debts. Even in bankruptcy, pensions must be paid in full.

    Yale IV 2022 · Semifinals · 2022-10-29

  • That we should legally recognise the right of tenants to unionise.

    Infoslide

    This motion would assign these unions the rights to negotiate on behalf of all their members, enforce participation in collective action, and hold protected strikes under legally defined terms.

    Macquarie Open 2022 · Grand Final · 2022-10-29

  • This house would introduce a socialized care system in which all people needing care (ex. the elderly, people with disabilities) are cared for by workers selected by a national draft

    Infoslide

    Slum tourism is a practice of people of comparatively wealthier countries visiting impoverished places for observing human life in poverty first-hand.

    Lithuanian Novice Debating Tournament 2021-2022 · 1 · 2022-10-29

  • That we should legally recognise the right of tenants to unionise.

    Infoslide

    This motion would assign these unions the rights to negotiate on behalf of all their members, enforce participation in collective action, and hold protected strikes under legally defined terms.

    Macquarie Open 2022 · Grand Final · 2022-10-29

  • That South Korea should re-open the Kaesong Industrial Complex.

    Infoslide

    The Kaesong Industrial Complex provided South Korean companies with cheaper labor costs, while providing North Korea with critical hard currency

    Macquarie Open 2022 · Round 4 · 2022-10-29