116 Quotes by Sharan Burrow

When minimum living wages, bargaining for fair wages, pensions, and job security are denied in too many countries, it is not rocket science to understand the drivers of inequality.

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.'

We all eat breakfast in the morning, we all go to sleep at night, and we all want our kids to have opportunities that we didn't.

What Qatar chose is a system where a worker is owned by his employer. When your employer forces you to live in squalor, makes you work longest hours in extreme heat, doesn't allow you to change jobs, doesn't pay your wages on time, abuses you physically and psychologically, you have no way out, you can't leave. You are trapped.

No country can afford to lose a generation to unemployment.

Where workers are not free to change employers or leave the country without the permission of their employer, workers are, de facto, in forced labour.

Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we are the organized voice of oppositions to governments operating at the behest of corporate power and vested interests.

Governments that fail to provide jobs to those who are willing and able to work begin to lose their legitimacy and will face the anger of the electorate.

Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries.