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" Climate impacts hit working people first, and with extreme weather events, changing seasons, and rising sea levels, whole communities stand on the front lines. "

Sharan Burrow

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" Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries. "

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

" 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. "

" There's not much more of an honour - to work for, and with, working people. "

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" Labour is not a commodity. "

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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. "

" We need to decarbonise our societies and economies. "

" If political leaders want respect, they will begin by enforcing the global rule of law. "

" Work has always been influenced by technology and will continue to be. "

" We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity. "

" Creating a Financial Transactions Tax would go a long way to curbing short-term speculative trading, including high-frequency trading. "

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" Market-led globalization is leading to a race to the bottom, where efficiency and profit matter more than a fair share for working people. "

" If the impoverishment and community fragmentation continue, it is not a stretch to predict urban wars sparked by inequality, unemployment, and the breakdown of dialogue between leaders and citizens. "

" 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. "

" For the unions, it is simple. There are no jobs on a dead planet. "

" Collective bargaining, and the fundamental human right, freedom of association, is seen as an anathema to American business, and people just - it doesn't seem to register that there's no universal social safety net that people can touch. "

" Global supply chains are founded on a Darwinian model that rewards employers who treat working people as less than human. "

" In terms of emerging economies, we absolutely believe that the prescription is social protection and a minimum wage on which people can live. "

" We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability. "

" Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global risks have been ignored or exacerbated by those with the power to act. "

" Globalization can be shaped to ensure that people matter. "