Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy, — Sharan Burrow Business Copy Share Image
We must make both our distributional and democratic systems work for our communities. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Wealth is being generated off the back of oppression and abuse. — Sharan Burrow Abuse Copy Share Image
Are we going to fire the father to hire the son? We want to create jobs for young people, but not at… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
We all eat breakfast in the morning, we all go to sleep at night, and we all want our kids to have… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social… — Sharan Burrow Driving Copy Share Image
Growing inequality is exacerbated by the companies who simply treat workers as commodities, and our governments are cowered by their demands to… — Sharan Burrow Greed Copy Share Image
Investment in jobs at a time when millions are unemployed can only be a good thing: all the better if the jobs… — Sharan Burrow Better jobs Copy Share Image
Corporate greed, corporate bullying cannot be tolerated - it's time for a global rule of law to guarantee fair trade, rights, minimum… — Sharan Burrow Bullying Copy Share Image
If you think the dominant orthodoxy - shrink your economy, render workers jobless, impoverish families, and still grow - is an oxymoron...… — Sharan Burrow Economy Copy Share Image
We may be living in a world of disposable electronics, but working people are not disposable commodities. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
If you put stimulus into an economy, you know there is a time lag in terms of depending where you invest it.… — Sharan Burrow Family Copy Share Image
#MeToo shows this bias is systemic, that people get away with violence against women, get away with discrimination - whether in work… — Sharan Burrow Discrimination Copy Share Image
The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are… — Sharan Burrow Chains Copy Share Image
Collective bargaining, and the fundamental human right, freedom of association, is seen as an anathema to American business, and people just -… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Achieving sustainable ways of living is inextricably linked to how we organize work in the future. State of the World 2014 makes… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
It seems evident that the IMF has learned nothing from its inequality-inducing policies during the 1980s debt crises in Latin America nor… — Sharan Burrow America Copy Share Image
We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to… — Sharan Burrow Ambition Copy Share Image
Programs that reduce energy and water use and increase green agriculture and transport have huge job-creating potential. — Sharan Burrow Agriculture Copy Share Image
T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation. — Sharan Burrow Business Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration. — Sharan Burrow Frustration Copy Share Image
Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Where workers are not free to change employers or leave the country without the permission of their employer, workers are, de facto,… — Sharan Burrow Change Copy Share Image
Technological developments are changing the way we live, and there is much talk of digitalisation and the disruptive business models enabled by… — Sharan Burrow Business Copy Share Image
A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce… — Sharan Burrow Business Copy Share Image
When minimum living wages, bargaining for fair wages, pensions, and job security are denied in too many countries, it is not rocket… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Global supply chains are founded on a Darwinian model that rewards employers who treat working people as less than human. — Sharan Burrow Chains Copy Share Image
A new model of business and economic development must ensure everybody's sons and daughters are treated as we would expect for our… — Sharan Burrow Business Copy Share Image
We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation… — Sharan Burrow Creation Copy Share Image
The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded… — Sharan Burrow Economics Copy Share Image
Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are 'too big to fail' is needed. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed… — Sharan Burrow Family Copy Share Image
Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
If there are not jobs or adequate forms of social protection, there is not enough income to create the consumption base that… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
We need a multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance, not vested interests in making citizens pay for formerly free services or restrictions to… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries. — Sharan Burrow Collective bargaining Copy Share Image
