Alongside Pak'nSave worker Jenny Wells in Nelson, I've been campaigning for years for fair pay agreements to lift wages for the lowest-paid workers in New Zealand. Fair pay agreements will improve wages and conditions for employees as well as level the playing field so that good employers don't get undercut and disadvantaged. As the Employers and Manufacturers Association has said, these agreements will help drive up wages. We can't continue with the low-wage, low-productivity model that has cost us all so much. For too long, New Zealanders working in critical roles, like supermarket workers, cleaners, and bus drivers, whose work has kept our country going through this pandemic, have lacked bargaining power to seek better wages and conditions. Countdown is unionised; Foodstuffs has little unionisation because of how it is structured as a group of franchises. As former union leader the late Helen Kelly would say, it's "by design". And Foodstuffs have designed a structure that keeps wages in their supermarkets low while putting millions into the back pockets of supermarket owners. Let it be said that National and ACT are happy to keep a system designed to keep wages low for hard-working Kiwis while supermarket owners get rich off the back of their hard work.