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" Labour is not a commodity. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Disproportionate corporate power over governments is giving license to the greed that denies workers even minimum living wages. It is also seemingly a license to allow the sheer brutality of treatment of working people at the base of the supply chains. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Politically, we have seen the impact of social media organizing people through the Arab Spring. "

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

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

" There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration. "

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

" The environment, stabilizing the climate, needs urgent attention from all of us. "

" 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. "

" Securing a sustainable future will take all of us working together. "

Working Together

" As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people. "

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

" We know an organised workforce cannot be enslaved, but when governments fail their citizens and allow corporations to escape the rule of law, slavery can flourish. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Democracy is rarely easy, nor swift. "

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

" We may be living in a world of disposable electronics, but working people are not disposable commodities. "

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

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

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

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