Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): From a Shakespearean speech pulling out the points of corporate greed I'm going to transition into a speech that's maybe more Dickensian in tone but has a similar theme in fact—that a wellbeing survey from Statistics New Zealand today found that a third of New Zealanders identified that they have not enough or only just enough income to meet everyday needs. That is the other side of the corporate greed that the previous speaker Shane Jones was talking about and that is why I am pleased to be on this side of the House where we are committed to raising the minimum wage and we have started work on the fair pay agreements that will enable workers across this country to be able to stand together to bargain collectively to get fair wages and decent working conditions.The reality is in this country that productivity is up and wages aren't and if individual bargaining and dismantling of unions and the gig economy worked the way that we've always been told by that side of the House that it does work then that just wouldn't be the case. We're always told that that's the model that's going to deliver for our people and we find ourselves in a place where a third of the country is struggling to just get by. That's a third of the working people in this country are struggling to get by because of the model created and supported by previous Governments that we are committed to fixing.The evidence has come in that fair pay agreements and that collective bargaining across sectors supports productivity growth. It benefits working people in enabling them to get more money and their fair share of the productivity gains but it also supports employers to keep good staff enabling them to invest in training and equipment to then increase productivity so that everyone benefits from that.The evidence is really clear: when you give front-line working people more share of that profit they spend that money in their communities which delivers an economic benefit on top of the productivity gains for those businesses. When those people are paid fairly they're able to just work one job instead of the two or three that many of them are having to work just to be able to put food on the table. That means that their kids get the benefit of having them at home of having the resources to be able to go on that school trip to be able to attend a friend's birthday party.When as a country we know that roughly two out of five kids who are living in poverty have parents who are in employment the real heart of this problem and the way things are set up is exposed. That calls on us to act and act to support those families to be able to get a fair share to have the value of their work properly recognised and to be able to flourish and contribute to their communities.Even the OECD has acknowledged now as quoted in the recent Business and Economic Research report which was released yesterday—and I'll quote them—There are better labour market outcomes from a system of organised decentralisation comprising sector wage agreements providing a broad framework for firm-level bargaining of detail provisions."—basically fair pay agreements. They're telling us that that model delivers for people for communities for families and for business.I am so looking forward to the next stage in this work and for us to be able to really challenge that unfair inequality that's been created not from any failure of people in our communities but through Government policy privileging the corporate interests as so beautifully articulated by the previous speaker the Hon Shane Jones."