TUC Digital Lab, Author at TUC Digital Lab

Making hi-tech a rule for revolutionaries

The use of technology in campaigning and organising is growing, writes NUS’ Linda Somerville for Scottish Left Review. Some social movements are reaping benefits from data-driven organising and mass communication channels.

Podcast: In Data We Trust?

ElementAI’s podcast hears from UNI Global Union’s Christina Colclough on workers’ data rights – neglected in many data protections.

Test Driving: Thought Exchange

Prospect worked with UNI Global Union on a digital pilot project, encouraging young archaeologist members to come together online with anonymous discussion and collective decision making tools.

Summer Patrol: taking offline conversations to online organising

The TUC Summer Patrol is an organising campaign run by young trade union unionists in the Yorkshire and the Humber region. The aim is to visit high streets to interview and engage young workers about their workplace conditions, their legal rights, and how they can organise to improve their workplace.

Are you election ready on Facebook?

As we enter a likely general election, many unions will be thinking how they can get their issues across more clearly online during such a high profile campaign moment.

Why we are changing: Brand matters

Prospect’s Mike Clancy writes on why the union is updating their brand, and what this means in an age of rising digital expectations for prospective members.

Connective action: Digital tools for trade unions

UNI’s Young Workers Lab has produced a report, looking at nine digital projects & tools with potential for workers and their unions, as well as a bunch of off-the-shelf services that unions can consider to add instant functionality to their digital toolkits (pdf download).

Author: TUC Digital Lab