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Podcast: In Data We Trust?

ElementAI’s podcast hears from UNI Global Union’s Christina Colclough on workers’ data rights – neglected in many data protections.

Test Driving: Thought Exchange

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.

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.

Connective 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).

The 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.

Onward! 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.

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.