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Is your union’s join form ready for the Employment Rights Act?

The Join Together blog looks at two changes unions may want to consider to their joining processes, in the light of changing regulation for unions.

Workers and machines

A new monthly email newsletter from the TUC’s tech policy team, covering AI policy, politics and practical tips for the labour movement and allies.

A thousand new ways to join a union

The Join Together blog introduces their new product for unions. Campaigns creates micro-targeted and optimised join forms to make joining easier for different groups of workers, and increase the proportion of users who complete unions’ joining processes.

The AI shift: Where are all the job losses?

The FT looks at whether stories on job displacement from AI are pointing to causation or just correlation, using experience from Swedish union Unionen.

Destroyer or useful tool? Should we panic about the rise of AI?

The NUJ’s journal carries a feature from Steph Power, looking into examples of AI adoption by news publishers and individual journalists, and how the industry might find ethical and appropriate ways to respond to it.

Building a pro-worker AI innovation strategy

The TUC’s Adam Cantwell-Corn sets out the building blocks for a pro-worker AI innovation strategy for the UK. If we want to see shared prosperity rather than unmanaged job displacement and entrenching inequality, then centering workers’ expertise and concerns in innovation will be the best chance to forge a positive path for AI and its impacts on workers, communities and society at large.

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.