116 Quotes by Sharan Burrow

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

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

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.

In terms of emerging economies, we absolutely believe that the prescription is social protection and a minimum wage on which people can live.

Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are 'too big to fail' is needed.

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

A new model of business and economic development must ensure everybody's sons and daughters are treated as we would expect for our own.

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.

Public opinion must be heard.