The General Assembly,
Emphasizing this body's historic commitment to promoting the rights of workers and safeguarding the wellbeing of marginalized people,
Reaffirming its fundamental respect for individual autonomy, yet
Mindful of the disparities in bargaining power which often characterize relations between workers and employers,
Recalling the passage of General Assembly Resolution #302, Individual Working Freedoms,
Troubled that the resolution upsets the delicate balance between respect for the right to contract and the right of workers to seek protection from the government where inequality of bargaining power creates the possibility of exploitation,
Disturbed that the resolution deceptively frames the question of workweek hours as one of right to contract when individual employees often lack the requisite bargaining power to make any meaningful choice in how long they work,
Outraged that the resolution shrouds its purpose — permitting employers in nations indifferent or hostile to the rights of workers to set hours without any constraint — behind the language of individual autonomy,
Resolving to create a legislative framework more sensitive to the needs of workers and the true state of labor markets, as opposed to one which dresses up the obliteration of labor law in the garb of "individual rights in economic decision-making,"
Hereby repeals GA #302 Individual Working Freedoms.
Original Resolution