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Sharan Burrow Quotes

Welsh - Activist | December 12, 1954 -

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

Slavery Diligence Chains Clean Human

We know an organised workforce cannot be enslaved, but when governments fail their citizens and allow corporations to escape the rule of law, slavery can flourish.

Law Slavery Rule Of Law Know Escape

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.'

Live Business Smart Computers Way

Global supply chains are founded on a Darwinian model that rewards employers who treat working people as less than human.

People Treat Chains Human Working

The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitative conditions, keep workers fearful with insecure work contracts, or simply sack workers who have formed a union to fight back.

Work Fight Pressure Back Chains Pay

Workers know first-hand how corporate capture of government is undermining their rights and freedoms as citizens.

Government Know Capture Workers How

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.

Power People Greed Giving Living

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

Truth Day Sun People Economy Rising

Democracy is rarely easy, nor swift.

Democracy Easy Swift Nor Rarely

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

Rights Workers Must Remedy Effective

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

Work Technology Will Always Been

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.

America Bad Late Nothing Become

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