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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
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
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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
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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
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There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration. Sharan Burrow
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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
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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
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#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
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Many women drop out of the work force altogether, which holds back our economy with a loss of skills and personnel. Sharan Burrow
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I've had an enormously privileged working life. Sharan Burrow
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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
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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
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Creating a Financial Transactions Tax would go a long way to curbing short-term speculative trading, including high-frequency trading. Sharan Burrow
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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
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We need investment in green economy infrastructure; public services, training and education; and a multilateral plan to create youth job opportunities. Sharan Burrow
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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
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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
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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
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Governments that fail to provide jobs to those who are willing and able to work begin to lose their legitimacy and will face the anger of the electorate. Sharan Burrow
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We must make both our distributional and democratic systems work for our communities. Sharan Burrow
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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
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T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation. Sharan Burrow
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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
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We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don't earn. Sharan Burrow
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Global supply chains are founded on a Darwinian model that rewards employers who treat working people as less than human. Sharan Burrow
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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
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