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Investment in jobs at a time when millions are unemployed can only be a good thing: all the better if the jobs help us shift from a high-carbon to a low-carbon economy. Sharan Burrow

Time Good Better Jobs Only Good Thing Investment Economy Shift Unemployed Us Help Thing Millions

Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation. Sharan Burrow

Generation High High Unemployment Area Prospects Knows How Unemployed Unemployment Families Anyone Social Next Next Generation Who Lived Resilience Bonds Damages

We must make both our distributional and democratic systems work for our communities. Sharan Burrow

Work Our Systems Must Both Democratic Make Communities

South Carolina is a 'right to work' state - a misnomer of a phrase, as the laws limits union representation of workers. It does does not guarantee workers a job or fair wages and conditions. Sharan Burrow

Work Job State Carolina Phrase Laws Fair Does Limits Wages South Conditions South Carolina Representation Workers Union Right Guarantee

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

Fear Intimidation Scare Representation Workers Union Uses Company Away

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. Sharan Burrow

Future Capitalism Youth Side Thorns Weak About Uncertainty Both Investment Consumption Supply Demand Economies Wheel Depressing Cycle Stresses

We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don't earn. Sharan Burrow

Earn We Cannot Jobs Investment Economies Without Cannot Grow

The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitative conditions, keep workers fearful with insecure work contracts, or simply sack workers who have formed a union to fight back. Sharan Burrow

Work Buy Fight Pressure Pay Back Our Insecure Fearful Sack Simply Supply Global Wages Motivated Conditions Sell Contractors Contracts Intense Formed Low Produce Exploitative Workers Union Who Companies Chains Keep Competitive

Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated. Sharan Burrow

Rights Must Remedy Effective Workers Violated

Technology can be used to make people's lives easier, to reduce inequality, to facilitate inclusion, or to solve intractable global problems, but without dialogue and governance, it can be used against humanity - the choice on how we use technology is ours. Sharan Burrow

Technology Humanity People Problems Easier Intractable Ours Solve Facilitate Global Make Without Inequality How Reduce Dialogue Governance Against Choice Use Used Inclusion Lives

'Bridget Jones' is meant to be a funny night out, but with emotional truth. I wanted to make it a classic that you can pick up in 10 years and not cringe over. Sharon Maguire

Funny Truth You Cringe Out Classic Emotional Pick Emotional Truth Over Make Years Up Wanted Meant Meant To Be Bridget Jones Night

I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house. Sharon Maguire

Class Council Part House Up Establishment Grew Working Working-Class

Your little Obama voice: 'Yes you can.' Listen to your inner Obama-voice. Sharon Maguire

You Obama Voice Yes Listen Little Your Inner

I loved 'Sex in the City' - my God, I watched every one. Sharon Maguire

God Sex Every City Loved Watched

I've been a huge cricket fan since my teens, and I often used to go down to St. Helen's in Swansea in the summer. To me, it was like a 'rites of passage' experience to have the freedom of St. Helen's cricket ground. Steffan Rhodri

Freedom Me Experience Down Cricket Teens Summer Rites Since Like Passage Go Been Huge Often Fan Used Ground

I used to spend countless days in my teenage years keeping scorecards, playing cricket and just enjoying myself with friends and having the occasional shandy in the bar. Steffan Rhodri

Myself Cricket Teenage Teenage Years Spend Having Countless Days Occasional Years Friends Just Bar Used Keeping Enjoying Playing

From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked. Taliesin

Leader Attacked Host Red Grew Warriors

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader. The Edge

Guitar Broader Range Possibilities Pretty About Something Pianos True Like Instruments Sound Sounds Lot Trumpet Much

What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it. The Edge

Song Definition No-One Real Subjective Thing

The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting. The Edge

Work You Yourself Try Fans Big Pandering Everyone Would Would-Be Easy Rather Potent Cheat Accept Because End Up Than Expected Expecting Where Dishonesty In The End Create Your Inherent Popular Popularity Cop-Out Thing Start

I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous. The Edge

Take Steps Anonymous Might

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