Sharan Burrow Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Sharan Burrow:

As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people.

As we contemplate a world which is still choosing to deploy technological innovation in a way that deepens inequality and divisions within and between nations, we need to set global foundations back on track.

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Labour is not a commodity.

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Large swathes of people losing faith in democracy is a dangerous thing. Conflict, desperation, totalitarianism are the products of that loss of faith.

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Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we are the organized voice of oppositions to governments operating at the behest of corporate power and vested interests.

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Securing a sustainable future will take all of us working together.

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Technological developments are changing the way we live, and there is much talk of digitalisation and the disruptive business models enabled by smart phones, tablets, computers, and the 'Internet of things.'

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You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever.

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Wealth is being generated off the back of oppression and abuse.

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What Qatar chose is a system where a worker is owned by his employer. When your employer forces you to live in squalor, makes you work longest hours in extreme heat, doesn't allow you to change jobs, doesn't pay your wages on time, abuses you physically and psychologically, you have no way out, you can't leave. You are trapped.

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There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration.

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We all eat breakfast in the morning, we all go to sleep at night, and we all want our kids to have opportunities that we didn't.

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Public opinion must be heard.

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When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps.

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T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation.

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There's not much more of an honour - to work for, and with, working people.

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A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality.

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Programs that reduce energy and water use and increase green agriculture and transport have huge job-creating potential.

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Disproportionate corporate power over governments is giving license to the greed that denies workers even minimum living wages. It is also seemingly a license to allow the sheer brutality of treatment of working people at the base of the supply chains.

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A binding treaty and mandatory human rights due diligence would clean up slavery in global supply chains. Workers demand it, and consumers demand it.

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Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.

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Where workers are not free to change employers or leave the country without the permission of their employer, workers are, de facto, in forced labour.

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No country can afford to lose a generation to unemployment.

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Global supply chains are founded on a Darwinian model that rewards employers who treat working people as less than human.

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The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics.

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Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the real economy and the financing of the real economy, then we are not going to see the kind of stability or the capacity to drive genuine, income-led growth as opposed to debt-fuelled, speculative behaviour.

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The rules of the global economy are rigged against those who have to work to earn a living and in favour of multinational corporations and the ultra-rich.

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We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation strategy.

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#MeToo shows this bias is systemic, that people get away with violence against women, get away with discrimination - whether in work or society in general - because, for too long, silence has been the answer.

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Creating a Financial Transactions Tax would go a long way to curbing short-term speculative trading, including high-frequency trading.

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If you put stimulus into an economy, you know there is a time lag in terms of depending where you invest it. If it's family transfers, it might be quick. If it's infrastructure, it might be two, three, five years.

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If multilateral institutions cannot bring about peace and the rule of law because of the vested interests of their members, then both national democracy and global governance will continue to be rocked by crises.

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Corporate greed, corporate bullying cannot be tolerated - it's time for a global rule of law to guarantee fair trade, rights, minimum wages on which people can live with dignity, and safe and secure work.

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As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people.

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Workers know first-hand how corporate capture of government is undermining their rights and freedoms as citizens.

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It seems evident that the IMF has learned nothing from its inequality-inducing policies during the 1980s debt crises in Latin America nor from its recession-deepening response to the East Asian crisis of the late 1990s. In both regions, the IMF has become synonymous with making bad situations worse.

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Work has always been influenced by technology and will continue to be.

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