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The corporate community understands the need for rules. Indeed, it argues for regulation to protect intellectual property, physical property rights, and contract law. So why does it oppose global regulation to protect people and the environment?
The cycle of jobless youth, uncertainty about the future, depressing consumption, and weak investment and stresses on both the supply and demand side of economies are all thorns in the wheel of capitalism.
The environment, stabilizing the climate, needs urgent attention from all of us.
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.
There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration.
There is no doubt that the participation of women in the workforce is a serious productivity boost, but to enable this ambition, there must be investment in care - child care, aged care, disability care, health, and education - which are essential social support structures to enable women to work.
There's not much more of an honour - to work for, and with, working people.
T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation.
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.
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.
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.
We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability.
We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don't earn.
We know an organised workforce cannot be enslaved, but when governments fail their citizens and allow corporations to escape the rule of law, slavery can flourish.
We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure.
We may be living in a world of disposable electronics, but working people are not disposable commodities.
We must make both our distributional and democratic systems work for our communities.
We need a multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance, not vested interests in making citizens pay for formerly free services or restrictions to their capacity to share information.
We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation strategy.
We need investment in green economy infrastructure; public services, training and education; and a multilateral plan to create youth job opportunities.
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