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What we’re reading on other sites

  • How ‘young tech dudes’ are decentralising unions with blockchain, AI
  • Work on stuff that matters: fighting the gig economy
  • What use are unions in the digital era?
  • Innovation is key to winning young union members
  • Digital trade unions will empower tomorrow’s sharing economy employees
  • It’s the power, stupid! Ideas for #workertech

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  • Hack the union
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Category: What we’re reading

How ‘young tech dudes’ are decentralising unions with blockchain, AI

New approaches to organising being piloted in Australia and the US.

Format LinkPosted on January 3, 2018Author tucdigitalCategories What we're reading

Work on stuff that matters: fighting the gig economy

Digital Product Strategist John Chadfield rounds up #WorkerTech initiatives to address increasingly precarious employment.

Format LinkPosted on June 9, 2017June 9, 2017Author tucdigitalCategories What we're reading

What use are unions in the digital era?

When thinking about the challenges of bringing security to workers in the gig economy, the temptation is to turn first to digital, argues Antonia Bance. But the prevailing ethos in tech is individual and consumer-led, and, without an underpinning analysis of power, technology alone won’t meet the challenge.

Format LinkPosted on May 3, 2017May 3, 2017Author tucdigitalCategories What we're reading

Innovation is key to winning young union members

Abigail Rumsey, a Prospect delegate at the TUC young workers’ conference, reflects on why the union must embrace technology as part of its organising strategy.

Format LinkPosted on March 29, 2017Author tucdigitalCategories What we're reading

Digital trade unions will empower tomorrow’s sharing economy employees

The insecurity brought about by sharing economy jobs can be offset by digital trade unions, says Resolution Trust’s Gavin Kelly in WIRED

Format LinkPosted on January 17, 2017Author tucdigitalCategories What we're reading

It’s the power, stupid! Ideas for #workertech

As you wrestle with how we improve the workplace, you have to think about power, says Antonia Bance. Otherwise we end up with tech that merely delivers greater convenience to people who don’t need it the most.

Format LinkPosted on November 16, 2016November 16, 2016Author John WoodCategories What we're reading

Tech and the low-wage workforce: friend as well as foe?

The Resolution Trust launches new a WorkerTech partnership with Bethnal Green Ventures to incubate tech based innovations that support the low-wage workforce.

Format LinkPosted on November 15, 2016December 6, 2016Author tucdigitalCategories What we're reading

My new role as the TUC’s first Chief Information Officer

I’ve recently taken on a new role (says Simon Parry of Infobo.com). I’ve been appointed as the first virtual Chief Information Officer at the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

Format LinkPosted on October 21, 2016December 6, 2016Author tucdigitalCategories What we're reading

We are stronger together: Union reps connecting by app

Hugh Robertson thinks the unionreps community and app could be the glue that holds union networking together between the physical meetings that come about through union training.

Format LinkPosted on October 14, 2016October 14, 2016Author tucdigitalCategories What we're reading

UNISON’s digital strategy: the only thing that is certain is change

For over two years now, I’ve been developing UNISON’s digital strategy (says UNISON’s Nick Scott). It is, as all strategies tend to be, a work in progress. However we’re now stepping up a gear with the launch of a two-year work programme.

Format LinkPosted on September 25, 2016December 6, 2016Author tucdigitalCategories What we're reading

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