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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
Working
Treat
Chains
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" Securing a sustainable future will take all of us working together. "
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" 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? "
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" When working men and women have secure jobs with living wages and social protection, they can invest in the economy at levels which will increase demand and help overcome the twin challenges of ageing populations and economic stagnation. "
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" Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product. "
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" Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery. "
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" 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. "
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" Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities. "
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" We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure. "
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" Wealth is being generated off the back of oppression and abuse. "
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" Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration. "
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" If multilateral institutions cannot bring about peace and the rule of law because of the vested interests of their members, then both national democracy and global governance will continue to be rocked by crises. "
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" Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are 'too big to fail' is needed. "
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" 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. "
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" We need to decarbonise our societies and economies. "
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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. "
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" Labour is not a commodity. "
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Labour
" You'd never plan a career like I've had. "
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Plan
" The environment, stabilizing the climate, needs urgent attention from all of us. "
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" If people do not have jobs, they do not have a secure income, and they do not have a sense of security. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Where workers are not free to change employers or leave the country without the permission of their employer, workers are, de facto, in forced labour. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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