English: 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 -
Welsh: Daeth fy nau riant, fel y mae'n digwydd, yn arweinwyr undebau, felly nid oedd yn syndod efallai fod ymuno ag undeb, Undeb Cenedlaethol y Newyddiadurwyr yn fy achos i, yn gam eithaf naturiol pan ddechreuais yn y byd gwaith. Roedd gwerth undebau'n glir i mi bryd hynny, fel y mae yn awr. Mae undebau'n dda ar gyfer lefelau cyflog a lles, ar gyfer sicrwydd swydd. Lle mae gennych undebau, mae hyfforddiant da'n fwy tebygol o ddigwydd, mae materion cydraddoldeb yn fwy tebygol o gael sylw drwy undebau llafur, mae undebau yn helpu i ddod â sefydlogrwydd i weithle, gan leihau trosiant staff, sy'n dda i fusnes. Daw hynny â ni'n ôl at y pwynt a wneuthum yn gynharach: mae'n gylchol. Mae trin gweithwyr yn deg, a rhoi llais i weithwyr yn dda i'r economi yn ogystal ag i'r gweithwyr eu hunain. A cheir digon o dystiolaeth o'r gwerth a ddaw drwy sicrhau bod gan y gweithiwr lais go iawn. Yr hyn y mae arnom ei eisiau, wrth gwrs, a phwrpas y cynnig hwn heddiw yw gwneud gwaith yn decach, a rhaid gwneud hynny ar adeg pan fo gwaith yn newid. Mae patrymau gwaith yn newid. Mae'r economi gig yn cyflwyno heriau newydd, ond mae undebau bob amser yn ceisio addasu i'r amgylchiadau newidiol hynny. Rwyf bob amser wedi gweld gwerth gallu cydweithredu â'r mudiad undebau llafur yng Nghymru. Wrth gloi fy sylwadau ar y cynnig hwn heddiw, atgoffaf y Llywodraeth y byddwn yn ei dwyn i gyfrif o ganlyniad i ymgyrch ddiweddaraf TUC Cymru, er mwyn sicrhau nad oes unrhyw lithriant o ran yr addewid i symud tuag at Ddeddf partneriaeth gymdeithasol - mae'n rhywbeth y mae mudiad yr undebau llafur yng Nghymru yn ei fynnu. Rhaid dweud ei bod hi'n drueni mawr fod gwelliant y Llywodraeth Lafur yn dileu'r rhan fwyaf o'n cynnig, yn enwedig, efallai, yr un ar gontractau dim oriau. Bydd rhai pobl yn gallu cyfrif a nodi mai dyna'r wythfed tro i Lafur Cymru mewn Llywodraeth wrthod cyfle i bleidleisio dros eiriad cryf - cynnig cryf - ar gontractau dim oriau. Mae'n drueni eu bod yn dileu ein cynnig, neu'r rhan fwyaf ohono. Canlyniad gwaith rhyngom ni a'n ffrindiau - eich ffrindiau - yn y mudiad undebau llafur yng Nghymru oedd y cynnig hwn, felly efallai yr hoffech esbonio iddynt hwy beth nad oedd yn dderbyniol yn eu geiriau ac yn eu gofynion a ddygwyd gerbron y Cynulliad heddiw yn y cynnig hwn. Ond gadewch i bawb ohonom ymrwymo -