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" Growing inequality is exacerbated by the companies who simply treat workers as commodities, and our governments are cowered by their demands to perpetuate this model of greed. "

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" When corporations refuse to practice due diligence by not establishing grievance mechanisms for remedy of abuses against the hidden 94% of their workforce in their global supply chains, they perpetuate a depraved model of profit-making that has driven inequality to a level now seen as a global risk in itself. "

Sharan Burrow

Now

Inequality

Hidden

" We need to decarbonise our societies and economies. "

" I've had an enormously privileged working life. "

" A new model of business and economic development must ensure everybody's sons and daughters are treated as we would expect for our own. "

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

" No country can afford to lose a generation to unemployment. "

" My job is to represent working people. "

" 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. "

" Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery. "

" Wealth is being generated off the back of oppression and abuse. "

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

Sharan Burrow

Creating

Way

" We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation strategy. "

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

" 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. "

" Large swathes of people losing faith in democracy is a dangerous thing. Conflict, desperation, totalitarianism are the products of that loss of faith. "

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

Sharan Burrow

People

Much

" Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system. "

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

" 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. "

" When we see the banks get bailed out with seemingly no consequences while ordinary people pay the price with job and wage cuts through austerity measures, who could blame a person for wondering where the loyalties of their elected leaders really lie? "

" As economists bandy about terms like 'recapitalization,' 'credit lines,' and 'liquidity,' families are facing brutal cuts to their social services and welfare payments, losing their homes, wondering how their kids will make their way in the world. "

" 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. "

" Workers know first-hand how corporate capture of government is undermining their rights and freedoms as citizens. "

" If people do not have jobs, they do not have a secure income, and they do not have a sense of security. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever. "

" We need a multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance, not vested interests in making citizens pay for formerly free services or restrictions to their capacity to share information. "

" With global rules for global supply chains, we can end corporate greed. "