TUC Digital Lab, Author at TUC Digital Lab

Little Tech is coming for workers

Report and database from CoWorker.org, investigating the current wave of work related tech products. A record amount of capital is being invested in developing new management software tools that are being released without proper consideration for their harmful effects on working people.

Powering the picket line: Workers are turning to tech in their labor battles

The Washington Post covers a increase in worker and union online activity around disputes in the US.

Slackers of the world, Unite!

The Atlantic covers productivity software Slack, and how adopting a new tool for work can alter workplace culture and employment relations, for the better or worse.

Can tech help boost worker power?

Here’s a recording of a Resolution Foundation fringe event from Congress 2021. Prospect’s Andrew Pakes and UNISON’s David Arnold join the Resolution Ventures’ Louise Marston to look at how tech might help build power for workers, and help unions to support them in doing that.

Building digital democracy

TSSA’s Gareth Theobald looks at the union’s next steps in increasing levels of democratic engagement for members via digital.

New power, tech unions and Wetherspoons’ WhatsApps

The New Power Review newsletter looks at examples of unions using technology to organise.

Beyond Government: Democracy in Trade Unions

Democratic Society’s Anthony Zacharzewski introduces their project to find new ways for unions to use digital methods to engage more members in their democracies.

A new app is taking labor unions out of union organising

Vice covers US digital platform startups that seek to replicate some of the functions of union organising campaigns, within a for-profit model.

Trade union website league table 2021

Simon Parry’s annual roundup of which union websites have the highest domain authority online. Where does yours rank?

Could an app replace your union?

Ryan Hayes looks at disruptive threats to unions for Canadian labour magazine Our Times.