The FT looks at whether stories on job displacement from AI are pointing to causation or just correlation, using experience from Swedish union Unionen.
Continue reading The AI shift: Where are all the job losses?Category: What we’re reading
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.
Continue reading Destroyer or useful tool? Should we panic about the rise of AI?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.
Continue reading Building a pro-worker AI innovation strategyTo 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.
Continue reading To retain more members, should unions actually make it easier for people to leave?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.
Continue reading AI is a total griftTrade 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.
Continue reading Trade union website league table 2025Building 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.
Continue reading Building the jobs for tomorrow’s unionsAI 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.
Continue reading AI demystifiedUsing dashboards to help unions understand Irish economic data
Simon Parry introduces a data dashboard project he worked on for Irish unions.
Continue reading Using dashboards to help unions understand Irish economic dataOver 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!
Continue reading Over 100,000 people have now joined a union with Join Together