tucdigital, Author at TUC Digital

Trade Union Website League Table 2019

Simon Parry compiles an annual list of TUC unions’ websites, ranked by domain authority. Check out whose content is cutting through online this year.

How to organize a massive number of distributed events

Distributed offline events are an exciting tactic growing in use in big digital organising campaigns, from Bernie Sanders’ primary campaign to Extinction Rebellion. ControlShift’s Nathan Woodhull has a how-to guide for progressive organisations looking to make use of this themselves.

Workers fear their voices are being ignored over tech

Employers are failing to take workers with them when they introduce new technology into the workplace, says a new London Tech Week poll from Prospect.

Transforming the union movement

James Richards of Chromatrope attended the debates at Unions21’s conference, and blogged some of his thoughts on how digital could help address some of the big challenges facing the union movement.

5 design lessons from Young Workers Lab

UNI’s Young Workers Lab team have learnt some valuable lessons during the design and first months of the project.

What advocacy organisations need to win today

Mobilisation Lab’s Michael Silberman outlines three areas of challenges for the operations of social change organisations.

Decentralized and data-driven

A Canadian Union of Postal Workers case study, showing how they’ve used decentralised digital organising techniques to build activism for an ambitious community campaign.

What will the world of work look like in 2035?

The RSA’s Asheem Singh looks at four possible scenarios of how technological and social change could affect our economy and labour market.

Hospo Voice case study

Callhub profiles Australian digital organising campaign Hospo Voice, and shows some of the tech and techniques they’ve used to build unions in Melbourne’s hospitality industry.

Paradoxically, platforms like Uber and Deliveroo could be good for labor unions

Researcher Martijn Arets examines some common properties of platform employers that could actually make union organising easier.