- Nov 07, 2020
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- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Market-led globalization is leading to a race to the bottom, where efficiency and profit matter more than a fair share for working people.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
The corporate community understands the need for rules. Indeed, it argues for regulation to protect intellectual property, physical property rights, and contract law. So why does it oppose global regulation to protect people and the environment?
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of emerging economies, we absolutely believe that the prescription is social protection and a minimum wage on which people can live.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to decarbonise our societies and economies.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many women drop out of the work force altogether, which holds back our economy with a loss of skills and personnel.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had an enormously privileged working life.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'd never plan a career like I've had.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we see the banks get bailed out with seemingly no consequences while ordinary people pay the price with job and wage cuts through austerity measures, who could blame a person for wondering where the loyalties of their elected leaders really lie?
- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020
Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are 'too big to fail' is needed.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creating a Financial Transactions Tax would go a long way to curbing short-term speculative trading, including high-frequency trading.
- Economically
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's never been clearer that unrestrained market forces do not produce the kind of societies we aspire to - economically stable and socially inclusive, where citizens have access to secure jobs with the dignity of a fair wage and a welfare safety net.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need investment in green economy infrastructure; public services, training and education; and a multilateral plan to create youth job opportunities.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Investment in jobs at a time when millions are unemployed can only be a good thing: all the better if the jobs help us shift from a high-carbon to a low-carbon economy.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Programs that reduce energy and water use and increase green agriculture and transport have huge job-creating potential.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product.
- Eat Breakfast
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation.
- Anger
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Large swathes of people losing faith in democracy is a dangerous thing. Conflict, desperation, totalitarianism are the products of that loss of faith.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politically, we have seen the impact of social media organizing people through the Arab Spring.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance, not vested interests in making citizens pay for formerly free services or restrictions to their capacity to share information.
- Continue
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the impoverishment and community fragmentation continue, it is not a stretch to predict urban wars sparked by inequality, unemployment, and the breakdown of dialogue between leaders and citizens.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must make both our distributional and democratic systems work for our communities.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Carolina is a 'right to work' state - a misnomer of a phrase, as the laws limits union representation of workers. It does does not guarantee workers a job or fair wages and conditions.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football, or soccer as it is known, is a game of two halves. It's a game with rules and a referee. FIFA, the governing body for football, follows neither the rule of law or has the oversight of a referee.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cycle of jobless youth, uncertainty about the future, depressing consumption, and weak investment and stresses on both the supply and demand side of economies are all thorns in the wheel of capitalism.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don't earn.
- Infrastructure
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Chains
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- Nov 07, 2020
A binding treaty and mandatory human rights due diligence would clean up slavery in global supply chains. Workers demand it, and consumers demand it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may be living in a world of disposable electronics, but working people are not disposable commodities.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global supply chains are founded on a Darwinian model that rewards employers who treat working people as less than human.
- Exploitative
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
If political leaders want respect, they will begin by enforcing the global rule of law.
- First-Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Workers know first-hand how corporate capture of government is undermining their rights and freedoms as citizens.
- Greed
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Global Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is rarely easy, nor swift.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology can be used to make people's lives easier, to reduce inequality, to facilitate inclusion, or to solve intractable global problems, but without dialogue and governance, it can be used against humanity - the choice on how we use technology is ours.
- Exacerbated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global risks have been ignored or exacerbated by those with the power to act.
- License
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- Nov 07, 2020
All business must have a social license to operate.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
When governments are cowed or simply don't care to enforce fundamental human and labour rights or to ensure corporate tax is paid so that they can invest in social protection and in the health and education of their people, they cede control to corporate greed.
- Depraved
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- Nov 07, 2020
When corporations refuse to practice due diligence by not establishing grievance mechanisms for remedy of abuses against the hidden 94% of their workforce in their global supply chains, they perpetuate a depraved model of profit-making that has driven inequality to a level now seen as a global risk in itself.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rules of the global economy are rigged against those who have to work to earn a living and in favour of multinational corporations and the ultra-rich.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environment, stabilizing the climate, needs urgent attention from all of us.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When working men and women have secure jobs with living wages and social protection, they can invest in the economy at levels which will increase demand and help overcome the twin challenges of ageing populations and economic stagnation.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no doubt that the participation of women in the workforce is a serious productivity boost, but to enable this ambition, there must be investment in care - child care, aged care, disability care, health, and education - which are essential social support structures to enable women to work.
- Nov 07, 2020
Care work contributes enormously to the well-being of our societies and to the sustainability of our economies.
- Deploy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we contemplate a world which is still choosing to deploy technological innovation in a way that deepens inequality and divisions within and between nations, we need to set global foundations back on track.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Economic Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
A new model of business and economic development must ensure everybody's sons and daughters are treated as we would expect for our own.
- Business Model
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- Nov 07, 2020
A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality.
- Oppression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many governments and corporations take no moral responsibility for the enslavement of migrant workers and freely do business with states built on the back of slave labour. Illicit financial flows and tax evasion are ignored in the interests of some nations and their corporations, stripping the tax base that is so vital for essential services.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
If multilateral institutions cannot bring about peace and the rule of law because of the vested interests of their members, then both national democracy and global governance will continue to be rocked by crises.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public opinion must be heard.
- Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation strategy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to represent working people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020