You'd never plan a career like I've had.
You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever.
Workers know first-hand how corporate capture of government is undermining their rights and freedoms as citizens.
Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated.
Work has always been influenced by technology and will continue to be.
With global rules for global supply chains, we can end corporate greed.
When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps.
When women are expected to bear the burden of unpaid work, everyone loses.
Wealth is being generated off the back of oppression and abuse.
We need to decarbonise our societies and economies.
We must make both our distributional and democratic systems work for our communities.
We may be living in a world of disposable electronics, but working people are not disposable commodities.
We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure.
We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don't earn.
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.
Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product.
Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system.
Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.
Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global risks have been ignored or exacerbated by those with the power to act.
Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are 'too big to fail' is needed.
Labour is not a commodity.
Global supply chains are founded on a Darwinian model that rewards employers who treat working people as less than human.
Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.
Democracy is rarely easy, nor swift.
There's not much more of an honour - to work for, and with, working people.
