Simon Parry has been looking at SEO changes in union websites over the last year. Who’s got the top spot for 2018? Continue reading Trade Union Website League Table 2018
Author: TUC Digital Lab
Embracing data is key to the future of unions
Learning to read and predict our changing environment through strategic use of data is crucial for the survival of trade unions, says Prospect’s Jenny Andrew.
Helping young workers understand unions and win at work
We’re excited to be able to reveal the first stages of our new union-backed digital service for young workers – WorkSmart.
Introducing WorkSmart: a new trade union offer for UK 21–30s from the TUC
With unions staring at a membership cataclysm in the next twenty years, it’s about time we rediscovered the value of risk taking to better serve working people, says Antonia Bance.
How ‘young tech dudes’ are decentralising unions with blockchain, AI
New approaches to organising being piloted in Australia and the US.
Going paperless at TUC Congress
Anyone who’s been to the TUC Congress or any other big motion-based union conference knows about the paper. While democracy is the intention, a heavy bag of paper is one of the products. Continue reading Going paperless at TUC Congress
Work on stuff that matters: fighting the gig economy
Digital Product Strategist John Chadfield rounds up #WorkerTech initiatives to address increasingly precarious employment.
Making trade unions more agile
At the end of 2016, I took part in a design sprint looking at the unionfinder functionality on the TUC website. The tool matches thousands of people to TUC affiliated unions every month, but it could be easier for users, more accurate in its matching, and better suited to finding and recruiting new members. Continue reading Making trade unions more agile
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.
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.