Welsh - Activist | December 12, 1954 -
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.
Sharan Burrow
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There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration.
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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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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.
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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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We need to decarbonise our societies and economies.
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Many women drop out of the work force altogether, which holds back our economy with a loss of skills and personnel.
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I've had an enormously privileged working life.
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There's not much more of an honour - to work for, and with, working people.
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You'd never plan a career like I've had.
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Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the real economy and the financing of the real economy, then we are not going to see the kind of stability or the capacity to drive genuine, income-led growth as opposed to debt-fuelled, speculative behaviour.
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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.
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