Best quotes by Sharan Burrow on People

Checkout quotes by Sharan Burrow on People

• ‟ Globalization can be shaped to ensure that people matter.

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

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

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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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• ‟ My job is to represent working people.

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• ‟ If people do not have jobs, they do not have a secure income, and they do not have a sense of security.

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• ‟ When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps.

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• ‟ The corporate community understands the need for rules. Indeed, it argues for regulation to protect intellectual property, physical property rights, and contract law. So why does it oppose global regulation to protect people and the environment?

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

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• ‟ You can't deny that if you have, you know, people who think it's okay to talk about women, to disregard the rights of workers, we're in trouble as an inclusive world.

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