Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:39 pm on 17 January 2017.
I believe it’s the Conservative Party that are delivering for Welsh workers, as they are for UK workers, by delivering an economy that has delivered record rates of employment, opportunity and prosperity. But I notice you did not dwell on the reasons why your Government stood in the way of delivering an autism Bill, as opposed to the trade union Bill, where people upstairs after this debate were genuinely in tears and disgusted by the outcome from this Labour Government and the betrayal, as they saw it, of your Government’s commitment in the Assembly election vis-a-vis the words that were spoken in this Chamber in that debate. What is unreasonable—what is unreasonable in the Trade Union Bill about informing employers when strike action’s going to be taken? What is unreasonable about seeking a threshold to get a majority of people who participate in that strike action? There is nothing unreasonable about that. It is your party that is taking us back to the 1970s and moving away from empowering workers to get on in this country. So, what is unreasonable in that Trade Union Bill that demands that your Government bring forward a separate piece of legislation?