The insecurity brought about by sharing economy jobs can be offset by digital trade unions, says Resolution Trust’s Gavin Kelly in WIRED
Author: TUC Digital Lab
Our first design sprint
A key function for the TUC online is to signpost people to trade unions. Thousands use the unionfinder tool on TUC sites every month, but it is under-performing, with difficulties in giving people authoritative results, and a user journey that is losing some people along the way. We ran the TUC’s first design sprint around this issue, looking at the challenge of how people find the right union and how to make it easy for them to join it. Continue reading Our first design sprint
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.
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).
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.
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.
“Just be ordinary”: unions and the digital crisis
Antonia Bance writes up a note of a speech she gave to a Unions 21 fringe meeting at TUC Congress 2016.
Digital day at #TUC16
Tuesday 13 September is an honourary “digi day” at TUC Congress in Brighton, with two fringe events tackling the challenges for unions in adapting to a digital-first world. Continue reading Digital day at #TUC16
What are the challenges for unions’ traditional ways of working in a digital world?
UNISON’s Nick Scott looks at where digital challenges to trades unionism’s established ways of working may come from in the future, on Stronger Unions blog.
Why can’t workers benefit more from the tools of the sharing economy?
Stian Westlake of NESTA asks why workers aren’t benefiting from the digital revolution as much as investors.