The Resolution Trust launches new a WorkerTech partnership with Bethnal Green Ventures to incubate tech based innovations that support the low-wage workforce.
Category: What we’re reading
My new role as the TUC’s first Chief Information Officer
I’ve recently taken on a new role (says Simon Parry of Infobo.com). I’ve been appointed as the first virtual Chief Information Officer at the Trades Union Congress (TUC).
We are stronger together: Union reps connecting by app
Hugh Robertson thinks the unionreps community and app could be the glue that holds union networking together between the physical meetings that come about through union training.
UNISON’s digital strategy: the only thing that is certain is change
For over two years now, I’ve been developing UNISON’s digital strategy (says UNISON’s Nick Scott). It is, as all strategies tend to be, a work in progress. However we’re now stepping up a gear with the launch of a two-year work programme.
“Just be ordinary”: unions and the digital crisis
Antonia Bance writes up a note of a speech she gave to a Unions 21 fringe meeting at TUC Congress 2016.
What are the challenges for unions’ traditional ways of working in a digital world?
UNISON’s Nick Scott looks at where digital challenges to trades unionism’s established ways of working may come from in the future, on Stronger Unions blog.
Why can’t workers benefit more from the tools of the sharing economy?
Stian Westlake of NESTA asks why workers aren’t benefiting from the digital revolution as much as investors.
Trade Union Website League Table 2016
Digital Consultant Simon Parry ranks the websites of TUC affiliate unions.