Sharan Burrow

I've had an enormously privileged working life.

— Sharan Burrow

Public opinion must be heard.

— Sharan Burrow

All business must have a social license to operate.

— Sharan Burrow

Democracy is rarely easy, nor swift.

— Sharan Burrow

You'd never plan a career like I've had.

— Sharan Burrow

Labour is not a commodity.

— Sharan Burrow

My job is to represent working people.

— Sharan Burrow

We need to decarbonise our societies and economies.

— Sharan Burrow

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

— Sharan Burrow

Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.

— Sharan Burrow

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

— Sharan Burrow

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

— Sharan Burrow

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

— Sharan Burrow

Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated.

— Sharan Burrow

If political leaders want respect, they will begin by enforcing the global rule of law.

— Sharan Burrow

Securing a sustainable future will take all of us working together.

— Sharan Burrow

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

— Sharan Burrow

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

— Sharan Burrow

The cycle of jobless youth, uncertainty about the future, depressing consumption, and weak investment and stresses on both the supply and demand…

— Sharan Burrow

Creating a Financial Transactions Tax would go a long way to curbing short-term speculative trading, including high-frequency trading.

— Sharan Burrow

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

— Sharan Burrow

Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.

— Sharan Burrow

You can't deny that if you have, you know, people who think it's okay to talk about women, to disregard the rights…

— Sharan Burrow

If the impoverishment and community fragmentation continue, it is not a stretch to predict urban wars sparked by inequality, unemployment, and the…

— Sharan Burrow

When working men and women have secure jobs with living wages and social protection, they can invest in the economy at levels…

— Sharan Burrow

As economists bandy about terms like 'recapitalization,' 'credit lines,' and 'liquidity,' families are facing brutal cuts to their social services and welfare…

— Sharan Burrow

When governments are cowed or simply don't care to enforce fundamental human and labour rights or to ensure corporate tax is paid…

— Sharan Burrow

Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic…

— Sharan Burrow

Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we…

— Sharan Burrow

Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods,…

— Sharan Burrow

Technology can be used to make people's lives easier, to reduce inequality, to facilitate inclusion, or to solve intractable global problems, but…

— Sharan Burrow

There is no doubt that the participation of women in the workforce is a serious productivity boost, but to enable this ambition,…

— Sharan Burrow

We will have no jobs if we have no planet.

— Sharan Burrow

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

— Sharan Burrow

You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever.

— Sharan Burrow

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

— Sharan Burrow

As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people.

— Sharan Burrow

Work has always been influenced by technology and will continue to be.

— Sharan Burrow

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

— Sharan Burrow

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

— Sharan Burrow