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To retain more members, should unions actually make it easier for people to leave?

The Join Together blog proposes that increasing transparency around how members can leave the union might give you more of a chance to talk to members before you lose touch with them, and even convince more of them of the value of staying in.

AI is a total grift

The CWU’s John Chadfield reviews a new book on the hype around AI, and how it’s being used by unscrupulous employers and tech providers alike to cut roles, deregulate, and extract greater profits at the expense of workers.

Trade union website league table 2025

Simon Parry has maintained an annual check on the Domain Authority of union websites for more than a decade. He’s just updated it for 2025, showing how well different union sites are likely to rank in search engines. Check out where your union ranks this year.

Building the jobs for tomorrow’s unions

Unions21 have a new report looking at how wider changes in the world of work around automation and data will mean changes in staff roles within unions.

AI demystified

Simon Sapper and Martin Smith’s organising podcast Organising For A Change talks with the TUC’s Adam Cantwell-Corn about why and how union members should engage in the adoption of AI in their workplaces.

Using dashboards to help unions understand Irish economic data

Simon Parry introduces a data dashboard project he worked on for Irish unions.

Over 100,000 people have now joined a union with Join Together

The Join Together SaaS joining and retention toolset supported by the TUC has now passed a milestone of 100K new union members recruited. Here’s to the next hundred thousand!

How Join Together revolutionised online member sign up for the NEU

A case study from Join Together on how they helped NEU to redesign their online joining process, and increase completed applications by 60%.

NASUWT: Notice period chatbot case study

EBM published this case study on their work with NASUWT, prototyping natural language enquiries to help members self-serve with advice.

Statement of principles to apply to the use of AI in physiotherapy

CSP have produced this helpful guidance for members and their employers in introducing or working with AI systems at work.