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" The environment, stabilizing the climate, needs urgent attention from all of us. "
Sharan Burrow
Attention
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" Securing a sustainable future will take all of us working together. "
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" We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation strategy. "
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" When women are expected to bear the burden of unpaid work, everyone loses. "
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" Technological developments are changing the way we live, and there is much talk of digitalisation and the disruptive business models enabled by smart phones, tablets, computers, and the 'Internet of things.' "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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Enough
" Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated. "
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" 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. "
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" We need to decarbonise our societies and economies. "
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" T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation. "
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Away
Representation
Fear
" There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration. "
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" Work has always been influenced by technology and will continue to be. "
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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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America
Late
Crisis
" 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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Democracy
Will
" 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. "
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" Global supply chains are founded on a Darwinian model that rewards employers who treat working people as less than human. "
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" A binding treaty and mandatory human rights due diligence would clean up slavery in global supply chains. Workers demand it, and consumers demand it. "
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Chains
Human Rights
" Many women drop out of the work force altogether, which holds back our economy with a loss of skills and personnel. "
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Loss
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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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" Workers know first-hand how corporate capture of government is undermining their rights and freedoms as citizens. "
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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. "
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" There's not much more of an honour - to work for, and with, working people. "
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More
Much
" Climate impacts hit working people first, and with extreme weather events, changing seasons, and rising sea levels, whole communities stand on the front lines. "
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