Prospect worked with UNI Global Union on a digital pilot project, encouraging young archaeologist members to come together online with anonymous discussion and collective decision making tools.
Continue reading Test Driving: Thought ExchangeAuthor: TUC Digital Lab
Summer Patrol: taking offline conversations to online organising
The TUC Summer Patrol is an organising campaign run by young trade union unionists in the Yorkshire and the Humber region. The aim is to visit high streets to interview and engage young workers about their workplace conditions, their legal rights, and how they can organise to improve their workplace.
Continue reading Summer Patrol: taking offline conversations to online organisingAre you election ready on Facebook?
As we enter a likely general election, many unions will be thinking how they can get their issues across more clearly online during such a high profile campaign moment.
Continue reading Are you election ready on Facebook?Why we are changing: Brand matters
Prospect’s Mike Clancy writes on why the union is updating their brand, and what this means in an age of rising digital expectations for prospective members.
Continue reading Why we are changing: Brand mattersConnective action: Digital tools for trade unions
UNI’s Young Workers Lab has produced a report, looking at nine digital projects & tools with potential for workers and their unions, as well as a bunch of off-the-shelf services that unions can consider to add instant functionality to their digital toolkits (pdf download).
Continue reading Connective action: Digital tools for trade unionsThe AI Council and CDEI must do more to give workers a voice
With no worker reps on data & AI ethics boards, tech workers (& their unions) are locked out of conversations about how the new economy will function. Transformation must be done with workers, rather than to them, says Prospect’s Andrew Pakes.
Continue reading The AI Council and CDEI must do more to give workers a voiceOnward! Another #GoogleWalkout Goodbye
#GoogleWalkout organiser Meredith Whittaker’s leaving post to colleagues, with her views on the need and path for worker organising in tech firms like Google.
Continue reading Onward! Another #GoogleWalkout GoodbyeTrade 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.
Continue reading Trade Union Website League Table 2019How 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.
Continue reading How to organize a massive number of distributed eventsWorkers 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.
Continue reading Workers fear their voices are being ignored over tech