Both my parents, as it happens, became union leaders, so it was perhaps no wonder that joining a union, the National Union of Journalists in my case, was a pretty natural step when I started in the world of work. The value of unions was clear to me then, as it is now. Unions are good for pay and well-being levels, for job security. Where you have unions, good training is more likely to take place, equality issues are more likely to be addressed through trade unions, unions help bring stability to a workplace, reducing turnover of staff, which is good for business. That brings us back to my earlier point: it's cyclical. Treating workers fairly, giving workers a voice is good for the economy as well as for the workers themselves. And there's plenty of evidence of the value that comes through ensuring that the worker has a true voice. 

What we want, of course, and the purpose of this motion today is to make work fairer, and that has to be done during a time when work is changing. Work patterns are changing. The gig economy is bringing new challenges, but unions are always trying to adapt to those changing circumstances. I always value being able to co-operate with the trade union movement in Wales.

In closing my comments on this motion today, I remind the Government that, as a result of the Wales TUC's latest campaign, we will hold the Government to account to make sure that there is no slippage on the promise of a move towards a social partnership Act—it is something that the trade union movement in Wales demands.

It is a real shame, I must say, that the Labour Government's amendment takes away most of our motion, especially, perhaps, the one on zero-hours contracts. Some people will be doing the maths and working out that that's the eighth time that Welsh Labour, in government, is turning down the opportunity to vote for a strong wording—a strong motion—on zero-hours contracts.

It's a shame that they're taking away our motion, or most of it. This motion was the result of work between us and our—and your—friends in the trade union movement in Wales, so perhaps you'd like to explain to them what was not acceptable in their words and in their demands that we brought to the Assembly today in this motion. But, let's all commit—