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Sharan Burrow
Sharan Burrow
Welsh Activist
Born: Dec 12, 1954
Job People Rights Will Work You
Related authors: Cesar Chavez Emmeline Pankhurst Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities. Sharan Burrow
Dignity Poison Stripping Destroying Splitting Inequality Families Communities Livelihood
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. Sharan Burrow
Work Time Bullying Rights Dignity People Law Greed Live Corporate Rule Rule Of Law Secure Minimum Fair Global Safe Fair Trade Trade Wages Cannot Which Tolerated Guarantee
We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation strategy. Sharan Burrow
Job Sustainable Development Creation Strategy Framework Job Creation Must Economic Economic Growth Development Employment Yes Sustainable Include Growth Need
Securing a sustainable future will take all of us working together. Sharan Burrow
Future Working Together Together Will Take Sustainable Us Working
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. Sharan Burrow
Work Living Earn Corporations Rules Those Favour Economy Global Global Economy Against Who Multinational Rigged
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? Sharan Burrow
Property Rights People Law Oppose Community Corporate Indeed Rules Physical Property Rights Environment Global Protect Does Understands Intellectual Contract Intellectual Property Regulation Why Need
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. Sharan Burrow
Work Education Health Women Care Ambition Doubt Boost Must No Doubt Structures Disability Investment Support Participation Enable Child Child Care Essential Which Aged Social Workforce Productivity Serious
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. Sharan Burrow
Become Nothing IMF Late Synonymous Worse Latin Latin America Evident Crises Crisis East Response East Asian Bad Seems Both Policies Learned Making Nor Debt America Situations Regions Asian
We may be living in a world of disposable electronics, but working people are not disposable commodities. Sharan Burrow
People World Living May Commodities Working Working People Electronics Disposable
Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality. Sharan Burrow
Environmental Poverty Increased Deterioration Risk Economic Unrest Driving Well Inequality Unemployment May Social Stark Consequently
As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people. Sharan Burrow
Truth Day Needs People Setting Sun Rising Economy Global Global Economy Each Each Day Universal
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.' Sharan Burrow
Business Phones Smart Internet Live Changing Way Tablets Computers Developments Talk Models Much Things Technological Disruptive
A new model of business and economic development must ensure everybody's sons and daughters are treated as we would expect for our own. Sharan Burrow
Business Economic Development Own Everybody Our Ensure Must Would Economic Daughters Sons Development New Expect Model Treated
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. Sharan Burrow
Morning Opportunities Breakfast Our Kids Eat Eat Breakfast Go Want Night Sleep
Large swathes of people losing faith in democracy is a dangerous thing. Conflict, desperation, totalitarianism are the products of that loss of faith. Sharan Burrow
Faith Democracy Conflict People Desperation Dangerous Losing Totalitarianism Dangerous Thing Loss Products Large Thing
We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure. Sharan Burrow
Build Jobs Investment Economies Know How Biggest Infrastructure Requires
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
Education Health Rights People Protection Care Greed Control Corporate Ensure Invest Simply Governments Labour dont Care Human Tax Social Enforce Paid Fundamental
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
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