Bidois DanDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): Well with a contribution like that from the member for Ōhāriu it is clear that he is auditioning for a career in the drama world because that was an appalling speech by the member for Ōhāriu. But I'm here because school is clearly out and it seems like everybody is on strike.We have had rolling strikes from people in the primary school industry. The secondary school teachers have announced that they're going to be going on strike later on next year. We've had nurses go on strike bus drivers train workers junior doctors Ministry of Justice workers St John Ambulance workers Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment and IRD workers anaesthetic technician workers midwives. The police have wanted to strike but they can't and now a court strike—court staff want to strike. Have I missed anybody? I'm sure I have because under this Government we've got a lot more strikes than under the previous nine years of the National Government.Now the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Iain Lees-Galloway won't be up front on how many people have striked under this Government but our estimates put it at anywhere up above 65000 with far more to come under this Government and under the changes that they are proposing in the Employment Relations Amendment Bill. This bill is payback for Labour's union mates. It aims to grow union membership and strengthen union power—everything for unions in this bill but nothing for the workers of New Zealand. This bill does everything for the 17 percent of New Zealand workers that are part of a union but nothing for the 83 percent of New Zealand workers that are not.New Zealand First will sit here and say Well hang on a minute. We got some concessions from this bill and some concessions that are going to make this far better for businesses in New Zealand." The truth is they got diddly-squat. Let me run you through the changes that they got as part of the bill. Firstly they've got a small delay in the introduction and they got a delay in the way union reps can access the workplace and those changes just favour the unions. What else can I just run you through? We've got some things that the New Zealand First Party has trumpeted—for example stuff that's around giving access to unions in the workplace for those on collective agreements but we know that if you're on a collective agreement and if your employer is under a collective agreement then of course the multi-employer collective agreement still applies to you and you cannot opt out of that. You've got a lot of other cosmetic changes in this bill and in summary the New Zealand First Party got diddly-squat from their employment relations changes.We fundamentally oppose the purpose of the Employment Relations Amendment Bill. We rank fifth in the world according to the World Economic Forum for labour market efficiency. We rank sixth in the world for the cooperation between labour and employment relations. Why mess with a good labour market system which has already produced fantastic results and results that this Government is trumpeting: 3.9 percent unemployment and high labour-force participation rates. Strengthening the aggressive combative unions is not the answer. Unions do not represent the workers of New Zealand with less than 17 percent signed up to unions and that's down from 34 percent in 1991.These changes are going to hurt New Zealand businesses they're going to destroy jobs and they're going to harm our economy. We here in the National Party want a future where our labour market is flexible where we give Kiwis the opportunity to work where they want when they want and how they want. We want an employment framework that is simple and worker-centric not union-centric. We oppose the employment relations changes. Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker."