Sharan Burrow Quotes

We need to decarbonise our societies and economies.
Wealth is being generated off the back of oppression and abuse.
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.
When corporations refuse to practice due diligence by not establishing grievance mechanisms for remedy of abuses against the hidden 94% of their workforce in their global supply chains, they perpetuate a depraved model of profit-making that has driven inequality to a level now seen as a global risk in itself.
When governments are cowed or simply don't care to enforce fundamental human and labour rights or to ensure corporate tax is paid so that they can invest in social protection and in the health and education of their people, they cede control to corporate greed.
When minimum living wages, bargaining for fair wages, pensions, and job security are denied in too many countries, it is not rocket science to understand the drivers of inequality.
When we see the banks get bailed out with seemingly no consequences while ordinary people pay the price with job and wage cuts through austerity measures, who could blame a person for wondering where the loyalties of their elected leaders really lie?
When women are expected to bear the burden of unpaid work, everyone loses.
When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps.
When working men and women have secure jobs with living wages and social protection, they can invest in the economy at levels which will increase demand and help overcome the twin challenges of ageing populations and economic stagnation.
Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries.
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.
With global rules for global supply chains, we can end corporate greed.
Work has always been influenced by technology and will continue to be.
Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated.
Workers know first-hand how corporate capture of government is undermining their rights and freedoms as citizens.
You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever.
You can't deny that if you have, you know, people who think it's okay to talk about women, to disregard the rights of workers, we're in trouble as an inclusive world.
You'd never plan a career like I've had.
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12 December, 1954
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