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Work has always been influenced by technology and will continue to be. Sharan Burrow
Work Technology Will Always Continue Been Influenced
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. Sharan Burrow
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The environment, stabilizing the climate, needs urgent attention from all of us. Sharan Burrow
Needs Environment Attention Climate Urgent Us
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. Sharan Burrow
Innovation World Back Way Divisions Between Contemplate Global Track Within Inequality Still Nations Deploy Which Choosing Foundations Technological Need Set
A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality. Sharan Burrow
Justice Business People Matter Old Way New New Business Principles Inequality Reduce Model Revolutionary Where Social Business Model Social Justice Now Based
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery. Sharan Burrow
Day Oppression Corrupts Corporations Alike Trade Governments Dictators Survive Modern Modern-Day To Survive Including Slavery
Many governments and corporations take no moral responsibility for the enslavement of migrant workers and freely do business with states built on the back of slave labour. Illicit financial flows and tax evasion are ignored in the interests of some nations and their corporations, stripping the tax base that is so vital for essential services. Sharan Burrow
Business Financial Responsibility Moral Responsibility Back Corporations States Enslavement Stripping Moral Vital Some Take Freely Built Governments Labour Essential Nations Tax Migrant Workers Interests Ignored Many Evasion Base Services Slave Flows
Public opinion must be heard. Sharan Burrow
Must Opinion Heard Public Public Opinion
My job is to represent working people. Sharan Burrow
People Job Represent Working Working People
When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps. Sharan Burrow
Work People Protection Poverty Risk Falling Social Traps
If there are not jobs or adequate forms of social protection, there is not enough income to create the consumption base that drives demand and sustainable economic growth. Sharan Burrow
Protection Enough Adequate Jobs Economic Economic Growth Drives Consumption Demand Sustainable Forms Social Create Base Income Growth
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. Sharan Burrow
Work Time You Change Pay Live Trapped Extreme Way System Out Jobs Physically Allow Longest Abuse Hours Employer Forces Makes Leave Wages His Squalor Heat Owned Where Psychologically Worker Your Chose
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. Sharan Burrow
Time Family You Three Invest Put Economy Know Terms Stimulus Years Quick Five Depending Where Lag Transfer Infrastructure Might Two
There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration. Sharan Burrow
Great Frustration Great Deal Sympathy Deal Understand Occupy Occupy Wall Street Wall Wall Street Movement Workers Amongst Street
In terms of emerging economies, we absolutely believe that the prescription is social protection and a minimum wage on which people can live. Sharan Burrow
People Protection Live Believe Minimum Minimum Wage Emerging Absolutely Economies Terms Wage Which Social Prescription
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. Sharan Burrow
You Rights Women People World Trouble Inclusive Think Okay About Know Talk Deny Workers Who Disregard
#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. Sharan Burrow
Work Silence Women People Long Society Too Systemic Has-Been General Bias Because Answer Been Discrimination Get Whether Against Shows Away Violence
Many women drop out of the work force altogether, which holds back our economy with a loss of skills and personnel. Sharan Burrow
Work Women Drop Back Our Out Drop-Out Economy Force Altogether Loss Holds Which Personnel Skills Many
I've had an enormously privileged working life. Sharan Burrow
Life Had Privileged Working Working Life
There's not much more of an honour - to work for, and with, working people. Sharan Burrow
Work People Honour More Much Working Working People
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. Sharan Burrow
You Financial Drive Sector Kind Financing See Economy Until Genuine Real Opposed Stability Behaviour Going Capacity Then Separate Growth Speculative
Banks don't come with an internal switch that says, 'Enough! Let's slow down a little.' Or, 'Let's just share this wealth around for the benefit of the community now.' That's the job of government. Sharan Burrow
Government Wealth Job Slow Community Down Enough Benefit Says Share Come Around Just Banks Little Internal Now Switch
Creating a Financial Transactions Tax would go a long way to curbing short-term speculative trading, including high-frequency trading. Sharan Burrow
Financial Long Way Would Long Way Trading Go Transactions Tax Short-Term Creating Including Speculative
If you think the dominant orthodoxy - shrink your economy, render workers jobless, impoverish families, and still grow - is an oxymoron... then you would be right. Sharan Burrow
You Think Would Would-Be Economy Render Still Dominant Families Oxymoron Then Workers Your Grow Shrink Right Orthodoxy
We need investment in green economy infrastructure; public services, training and education; and a multilateral plan to create youth job opportunities. Sharan Burrow
Education Youth Training Opportunities Job Investment Economy Green Public Infrastructure Plan Create Multilateral Services Need
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. Sharan Burrow
Work Science Economics Those Jobs Brothers Attacked Economy Concept Green Often Grim
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