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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" In terms of emerging economies, we absolutely believe that the prescription is social protection and a minimum wage on which people can live. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Programs that reduce energy and water use and increase green agriculture and transport have huge job-creating potential. "

" 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. "

" Labour is not a commodity. "

Sharan Burrow

Commodity

Labour

" We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don't earn. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Sharan Burrow

People

Much

" 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. "

" Many women drop out of the work force altogether, which holds back our economy with a loss of skills and personnel. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A binding treaty and mandatory human rights due diligence would clean up slavery in global supply chains. Workers demand it, and consumers demand it. "

" 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. "

" Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we are the organized voice of oppositions to governments operating at the behest of corporate power and vested interests. "

" A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality. "

" The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics. "