Sharan Burrow Quotations

What we do is look at the bottom line and what it will cost business - the truth is (it) doesn't cost business.

No employer who seeks to exploit people, who seeks to use John Howard's laws to cut take-home pay and conditions will be without attention.

Such reckless and partisan intervention in domestic policy debates outside the fund's areas of core expertise can only damage the IMF,

(We need) a broad-ranging inquiry, one that travels around the country, so that working people can talk to the senators about what it means for them.

We live in a world where workplaces have been dominated by men, for men of another era.

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

(Australian Foreign Minister Alexander) Downer must now do everything in his power to end the increasingly violent situation in Fiji, including the use of trade sanctions.

If penalty rates are attacked then working families will still (find it) even harder to pay their bills,

Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy,

Achieving sustainable ways of living is inextricably linked to how we organize work in the future. State of the World 2014 makes an important contribution by illustrating how trade unions, far from being outdated, will be at the forefront of a just transition. It is a challenging compilation?coming at exactly the right time.

We will have no jobs if we have no planet.

Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic justice and stability, we need ... negotiated, planned outcomes that people can touch at both the national and industry and enterprise level.

Are we going to fire the father to hire the son? We want to create jobs for young people, but not at the expense of others.

Globalization 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.

There is no option but to transform our world to a zero carbon future. We will fight to ensure that no one is left behind. This report breaks new ground and gives workers and businesses the confidence that there can be an economic plan which creates jobs and sets our planet on the course for survival.

Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods, engage in local development and live together in peace. This happens only when work is decent - environmentally sound and productive - provides fair wages, and is underpinned by rights