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.
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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.
Why ignoring workers is a sure-fire way to create an AI divide
Prospect’s Andrew Pakes writes for the New Statesman on how unions must help workers win the voice that’s currently missing in the debate about how their work is changing.
Continue reading Why ignoring workers is a sure-fire way to create an AI divideWhat is a digital department? (And why 350.org doesn’t have one)
Hanna Thomas writes about how ‘digital’ is becoming a less useful distinction in many organisations as new ways of working become mainstream. 350.org’s structure instead seeks to spread digital functions and skills around the organisation, supported by product teams focused on the particular tools the organisation needs.
Continue reading What is a digital department? (And why 350.org doesn’t have one)Old School: Cooperative Design at Action Network
Action Network’s Martha Grant writes how their upcoming organising toolkit Action Builder has been developed in partnership with unions, using principles of cooperative design.
Continue reading Old School: Cooperative Design at Action NetworkHow a labor union is using an algorithm to predict when to organize
Swedish union Unionen is logging support call data to model longer term economic changes with employers and help organisers plan accordingly, reports Vice’s Jamie Maxwell. Continue reading How a labor union is using an algorithm to predict when to organize
When algorithms hire and fire
UNI Global’s Christina Colclough writes for the journal ICTUR on how unions might need to respond to the effects of the burgeoning data that we generate in our working lives, but have little or no control over. Continue reading When algorithms hire and fire
Technology may help to revive organised labour
Recent decades have been tough on labour, largely as a consequence of technological change, claims this briefing from The Economist. But technology may also be the thing that helps turn their fortunes around Continue reading Technology may help to revive organised labour
Easy Joiner: coming soon to a region near you
UNISON is rolling out an interesting new Easy Joiner online tool to support reps helping to grow the union on the move. Continue reading Easy Joiner: coming soon to a region near you
Unions and digital transformation
UNISON Digital’s Alison Charlton introduces the principles informing their approach to digital transformation. Continue reading Unions and digital transformation