Sharan Burrow

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

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

Creating a Financial Transactions Tax would go a long way to curbing short-term speculative trading, including high-frequency trading.

If there are not jobs or adequate forms of social protection, there is not enough income to create the consumption base that drives demand and sustainable economic growth.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

If you think the dominant orthodoxy - shrink your economy, render workers jobless, impoverish families, and still grow - is an oxymoron... then you would be right.

We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don't earn.

I've had an enormously privileged working life.

Labour is not a commodity.

All business must have a social license to operate.

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.

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.

There's not much more of an honour - to work for, and with, working people.

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.

T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation.

If people do not have jobs, they do not have a secure income, and they do not have a sense of security.