We believe that our collective effort, the benefits of it, should be shared across those who are doing the work. And the international evidence is really clear: strong unions and collective bargaining frameworks are the best tools for delivering decent pay, stable jobs, and safe workplaces. And they are our best tool for reducing inequality as well as, not at all magically, improving performance and productivity. We're being told by the National Party that the interests of working people are in opposition to productivity and collective effort. It is just simply not true. The reverse is true. Since the 1980s—and we've got to a point where now less than one in five working people are covered by a collective contract in this country, compared to the 70 percent that it used to be, and before those radical right-wing reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. 