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" 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. "
Sharan Burrow
Information
Internet
Need
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" When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps. "
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Risk
" 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. "
Sharan Burrow
Right
Business
Freedom
" It's never been clearer that unrestrained market forces do not produce the kind of societies we aspire to - economically stable and socially inclusive, where citizens have access to secure jobs with the dignity of a fair wage and a welfare safety net. "
Sharan Burrow
Inclusive
Safety
Never
" 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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Weather
People
Sea
" 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. "
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People
Bullying
Law
" You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever. "
Sharan Burrow
Forever
You
Credit
" Large swathes of people losing faith in democracy is a dangerous thing. Conflict, desperation, totalitarianism are the products of that loss of faith. "
Sharan Burrow
Faith
Losing
Loss
" I've had an enormously privileged working life. "
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Working
Life
Privileged
" When minimum living wages, bargaining for fair wages, pensions, and job security are denied in too many countries, it is not rocket science to understand the drivers of inequality. "
Sharan Burrow
Science
Living
Security
" We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure. "
Sharan Burrow
Build
Know
Infrastructure
" Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system. "
Sharan Burrow
System
Born
Global
" Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice. "
Sharan Burrow
Political
World
Will
" Creating a Financial Transactions Tax would go a long way to curbing short-term speculative trading, including high-frequency trading. "
Sharan Burrow
Creating
Go
Way
" Workers know first-hand how corporate capture of government is undermining their rights and freedoms as citizens. "
Sharan Burrow
Government
Know
Rights
" 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. "
Sharan Burrow
Know
Escape
Slavery
" 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. "
Sharan Burrow
Lose
Work
Fail
" T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation. "
Sharan Burrow
Away
Representation
Fear
" Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries. "
Sharan Burrow
Truth
Rights
Employee
" 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
" 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. "
Sharan Burrow
Want
Sleep
Breakfast
" Public opinion must be heard. "
Sharan Burrow
Public
Public Opinion
Opinion
" Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality. "
Sharan Burrow
Risk
Poverty
Environmental
" 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. "
Sharan Burrow
Losing
World
Way
" No country can afford to lose a generation to unemployment. "
Sharan Burrow
Country
Unemployment
Lose
" 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. "
Sharan Burrow
Model
Inequality
Growing
" Democracy is rarely easy, nor swift. "
Sharan Burrow
Easy
Democracy
Rarely
" Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are 'too big to fail' is needed. "
Sharan Burrow
Fail
Big
Which
" As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people. "
Sharan Burrow
Sun
Day
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. "
Sharan Burrow
Peace
Ambition
Justice
" 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. "
Sharan Burrow
Uncertainty
Youth
Capitalism