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29 October 4852
Chancellor Alice Hemming initiates her 'State Socialism' to appease the years-long labour strikesThe conservative government under Chancellor of the Realm Alice Hemming announced this afternoon a new program to fix the issues of the years-long labour strikes. Two of the four bills of the program has already been sent to the National Convention for approval, after which it will be reviewed by the Council of the Union and the Constitutional Council to ensure no constitutional breach is inn play.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kivonia, Kovmark - In mid June 4849, labour unions all over the country banded together to form a massive national strike movement for the betterment of workers' conditions. These strikes were responded with force by the National Government, who used the pretext that the unions had ignored the requirement by law to hold a ballot with the additional requirement of that ballot needing to be approved by a majority of all union members. Hundreds of people clashed with the police in many small and large cities in the nation. Chancellor of the Realm, Alice Hemming was also under heavy fire from internal party critics – mainly social democrats – who accused her of ignoring human rights. Instead Chancellor Hemming tried to steer public attention towards her planned economic growth program within the infrastructural sector, something that has yet to be done. For the workers of the Union, three years of striking, which has affected the economy to a dangerous point, has finally led the Chancellor – who were in denial of the economic recession lasting long – to act by initiating a four-phase program to ensure health, accident, protection and insurance for workers, old aged and those of disability.
Two of the four phases of the so-called 'State Socialism Act' was finally pushed to the floor of the National Convention to be approved in June 4853. The first phase called '
Health Insurance Bill of 4852' will provide for the largest segment of workers health insurance, the health service will be established on a local basis with the cost divided between employers and the employed. The minimum payments for medical treatment and sick pay for up to thirteen weeks are to be legally fixed. And individual local health bureaus will be administered by a committee elected by the members of each bureau. The second phase called '
Accident Insurance Bill of 4853' declares that the federal government will pay a portion of the accident insurance contribution. The bill states that in 4860 it will replace the Health Insurance Bill of 4852 completely, as it will pay for medical treatment and a pension of up to two-thirds of earned wages if the worker was fully disabled. In 4858 it will be expanded to agricultural workers as well. The third-part of the program is called the '
Workers Protections Bill of 4854', and will when it has been implemented in 4854 enforce stricter regulations to ensure greater workplace safety, it bans work on Sundays and introduces a maximum working day of eleven hours for men and women and six hours for workers above 16 and under 18 years of age, it also bans those under the age of 13 to work part-time in factories, and encourages the establishment of worker's committees in factories to address disputes. The last and fourth-part of the State Socialism Act is a better pension program for workers, to ensure fairness for their working commitment during their lives.
How come the Chancellor realizes now that the recession caused by the strikers were not going to stagnate? Many are baffled over her inactivity concerning workers' rights, as it being an issue she had fought for since her entrance into politics. Reports has come out that none other than the head of state, Viktoriana, decided to once more intervene in government business and force the Chancellor to act before the economy reaches the point of a domino effect and completely shatters. In the temporary constitutional amendment implemented by Viktoriana in 4825 states that the head of government is subordinate to the head of state. Despite this fact, Viktoriana has intentionally put herself in a ceremonial role to allow for other ambitious individuals to rise through the ranks, however, it seems now with the strikes calming down, that the
Ducissa will take more command back from the Chancellor and serve in an executive position. Something that has please the Reinhardtian faction within the All-Union Nationalist Party.
With the labour-unions now being ensured that change is in the process of occurring, more and more local unions have quit their striking and gone back to their workplaces to help stagnate the recession so that a recovery can be made. This being something that has also calmed the stock-markets who are also now helping to invest in various industries around the country. Economic experts suggests that a stagnate can be seen in early and mid November, with a small increase in late November and early December this year. Three chaotic years for the country, and many are hopeful that Hemming's State Socialism will be a solution for todays working issues. Many are now referring to the Chancellor's conservative and socialistic stance as Hemmingism, "another version of paternalistic conservatism" a professor in political science at the Vermillion University concludes in a recent article in a local newspaper in the city of Vermillion.