TUC Digital Lab, Author at TUC Digital Lab

How to use webinars to reach workers and win change

Lockdown has presented huge challenges for unions. TUC Education has been using webinars to deliver training and support to union reps.

How greater transparency can help people get back to work with confidence

The Open Data Institute looks at our project to collate workplace Covid-secure risk assessments during the pandemic.

Workers’ rights: negotiating and co-governing digital systems at work

Algorithmic systems are a new front line for unions as well as a challenge to workers’ rights to autonomy, writes Christina Colclough for Social Europe.

Double-down on reps, not digital

By Eth Morgan & John Chadfield

We’re two tech workers; a software engineer and a product manager. Our role over the years has been to develop and maintain the kind of digital apps and tools that are now commonplace in people’s hands. We’re also trade unionists and members of the Tech Workers’ Coalition.

We’d been invited by TUC Digital Labs to share our expertise in working with a TUC affiliate, the Royal College of Midwives, as part of a pilot project, looking at questions around improving the accuracy of member data – something that’s key to helping the union’s work in continually improving their membership experience.

High visibility and COVID-19: returning to the post-lockdown workplace

The return from lockdown is bringing with it a surge of data collection about work and workers. Will employers get hooked and keep the surveillance after the crisis has gone, and how can workers have a meaningful say, asks Prospect’s Andrew Pakes.

Are you involved? Data Protection Impact Assessments at Work

GDPR offers workers a powerful tool to govern and oversee the use of technologies in workplaces, argues Christina Colclough.

Unionizing the Office in an Age of Remote Work

One troubling consequence of the disappearance of the office is that a potentially permanent increase in remote work will almost certainly make it harder for workers to organise, writes J C Pan in The New Republic.

Unions 21 Masterclass ‘Digital tools for organising’

Watch this recording of a webinar with Alison Charlton, Digital Engagement Manager at Unison, on choosing the right digital tools to organise your members.

Data, automation and AI in the time of Covid-19

UNI Global Union on how Covid-19 may erode workers’ rights to privacy and to disconnect.

Digital organising: Overcoming the trust barrier

Henry Skewes of Unions21 has been piloting online campaigns with non-union workers. He’s written up what they learned so far .