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5 design lessons from Young Workers Lab

UNI’s Young Workers Lab team have learnt some valuable lessons during the design and first months of the project.

What advocacy organisations need to win today

Mobilisation Lab’s Michael Silberman outlines three areas of challenges for the operations of social change organisations.

Decentralized and data-driven

A Canadian Union of Postal Workers case study, showing how they’ve used decentralised digital organising techniques to build activism for an ambitious community campaign.

What will the world of work look like in 2035?

The RSA’s Asheem Singh looks at four possible scenarios of how technological and social change could affect our economy and labour market.

Hospo Voice case study

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.

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.

Digital and the pay campaign

Digital technology will have a major part to play to help get over the 50% ballot turnout threshold, writes PCS’ Nick McCarthy.

What 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.

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.