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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

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" Banks don't come with an internal switch that says, 'Enough! Let's slow down a little.' Or, 'Let's just share this wealth around for the benefit of the community now.' That's the job of government. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When women are expected to bear the burden of unpaid work, everyone loses. "

" We need investment in green economy infrastructure; public services, training and education; and a multilateral plan to create youth job opportunities. "

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

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

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

" Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 rules of the global economy are rigged against those who have to work to earn a living and in favour of multinational corporations and the ultra-rich. "

" 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. "

" Market-led globalization is leading to a race to the bottom, where efficiency and profit matter more than a fair share for working people. "

" 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. "

" Care work contributes enormously to the well-being of our societies and to the sustainability of our economies. "

" The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitative conditions, keep workers fearful with insecure work contracts, or simply sack workers who have formed a union to fight back. "

" 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. "