Workers face many challenges at present, from climate change and technology to income and gender inequality - topics which all feature at Davos 2020.
Sharan Burrow, from the ITUC, says the confederation comes to Davos every year because it is an opportunity to meet heads of state and key employers who want to change as opposed to employers who think "inequality business as usual" is OK.
Davos also allows the ITUC to join in the debates from a worker's perspective.
The International Trade Union Confederation is the global voice of working people, representing the rights and interests of 200 million workers in 163 countries.
Ms Burrow said "the convergence of crises" is evident today.
She said that 50 years of the World Economic Forum has seen a lot of prosperity and opportunity but a lot of that prosperity has not been shared and has created the seeds of destruction - especially in climate terms - of the human race itself.
"There is a lot of talk (at Davos) but there is not yet that sense of crisis that people are feeling. We are living through an age of anger, created by fear," Ms Burrow added.
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Citing the IMF chief who said that inequality will bring the world into the next depression, Ms Burrow said that we have to deal with inequality and climate change with a new social contract and a new model of economy where prosperity is shared.
On workplace gender inequality, Ms Burrow said that improvements in women's rights have stalled after some rapid progress in recent years. She said the process must be kickstarted or the world will never see genuine equality between genders.
