Paul Waugh covers NEU’s new organising tool around escalating Covid concerns in schools into collective action. It’s a great project, allowing a process to happen at scale, supporting reps’ personalised needs and giving the union responsive insights.
Continue reading National Education Union steps up school closure campaign with new ‘Escalation’ appAuthor: TUC Digital Lab
Collective voices on data
Andrew Pakes blogs on Prospect’s fringe event on worker voice in data and technology at Congress 2020 – Taming the algorithm.
Continue reading Collective voices on dataTrade union website league table 2020
Simon Parry has ordered all TUC affiliate unions’ websites by domain authority again for this year. Who’s had the gains and falls in online influence in 2020?
Continue reading Trade union website league table 2020How 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.
Continue reading How to use webinars to reach workers and win changeHow 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.
Continue reading How greater transparency can help people get back to work with confidenceWorkers’ 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.
Continue reading Workers’ rights: negotiating and co-governing digital systems at workDouble-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.
Continue reading Double-down on reps, not digitalHigh 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.
Continue reading High visibility and COVID-19: returning to the post-lockdown workplaceAre 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.
Continue reading Are you involved? Data Protection Impact Assessments at WorkUnionizing 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.
Continue reading Unionizing the Office in an Age of Remote Work