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BA; diplomas in education and special education. Former President, Australian Council of Trade Unions. Member of the Board: Australia Institute; Global Reporting Initiative Stakeholder Council; Committee for Melbourne. Expertise: education, industrial relations, social policy.
Global GDP has trebled since 1980, yet labour income share has declined. A new social contract based on full employment and decent work would rebuild trust and restore genuine democracies.
Some 85% of the world’s workforce want the rules of the global economy rewritten, at a time of intense risk.
Some 84% of people believe that the minimum wage in their country is too low to guarantee a decent life.
"There are no jobs on a dead planet," says Sharan Burrow.
When women are expected to bear the burden of unpaid work, everyone loses, writes Sharan Burrow, head of the ITUC.
A new model of business and economic development must ensure everybody's sons and daughters are treated as we would expect our own to be.
From climate change to migration, many of this year's global risks are already affecting people everywhere.
This post is part of a series of interviews on the impacts of climate change and the COP21 talks in Paris. How is the global organized labour movement responding to the threat of clim...
We are facing an economic and social time bomb. About 210 million people are unemployed, including 75 million young people, and 1.52 billion workers are in precarious employment, many of ...
Sharan Burrow warns that we face a downward spiral without coordinated international efforts on job creation, in an interview for the Risk Response Network’s “What if?” series. You can re...
