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Category: What we’re reading
Embracing data is key to the future of unions
Learning to read and predict our changing environment through strategic use of data is crucial for the survival of trade unions, says Prospect’s Jenny Andrew.
Helping young workers understand unions and win at work
We’re excited to be able to reveal the first stages of our new union-backed digital service for young workers – WorkSmart.
Introducing WorkSmart: a new trade union offer for UK 21–30s from the TUC
With unions staring at a membership cataclysm in the next twenty years, it’s about time we rediscovered the value of risk taking to better serve working people, says Antonia Bance.
How ‘young tech dudes’ are decentralising unions with blockchain, AI
New approaches to organising being piloted in Australia and the US.
Work on stuff that matters: fighting the gig economy
Digital Product Strategist John Chadfield rounds up #WorkerTech initiatives to address increasingly precarious employment.
What use are unions in the digital era?
When thinking about the challenges of bringing security to workers in the gig economy, the temptation is to turn first to digital, argues Antonia Bance. But the prevailing ethos in tech is individual and consumer-led, and, without an underpinning analysis of power, technology alone won’t meet the challenge.
Innovation is key to winning young union members
Abigail Rumsey, a Prospect delegate at the TUC young workers’ conference, reflects on why the union must embrace technology as part of its organising strategy.
Digital trade unions will empower tomorrow’s sharing economy employees
The insecurity brought about by sharing economy jobs can be offset by digital trade unions, says Resolution Trust’s Gavin Kelly in WIRED
It’s the power, stupid! Ideas for #workertech
As you wrestle with how we improve the workplace, you have to think about power, says Antonia Bance. Otherwise we end up with tech that merely delivers greater convenience to people who don’t need it the most.