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  • Tories’ online voting block makes digital more important for strike ballots, not less
  • Talking about digital campaigning in unions
  • Join Together – a new approach to joining unions online
  • Making the most of mobile for union digital
  • NASUWT Conference 2022: Going back to physical events, without going backwards
  • Scaling peer-to-peer SMS campaigns in a national ballot – UCU case study
  • User research with union reps
  • Search engine optimisation (SEO) for trade unions
  • Looking ahead to 2022 in trade union tech
  • Understanding our digital-only union members

What we’re reading on other sites

  • People are turning to unions again
  • Knowledge is power – how unions can use data
  • Why are we talking data in unions?
  • Little Tech is coming for workers
  • Powering the picket line: Workers are turning to tech in their labor battles
  • Slackers of the world, Unite!

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People are turning to unions again

The team behind the TUC-backed online joining tech provider Join Together blog on why they started the project, and why it’s so important as the cost of living crisis bites.

Continue reading People are turning to unions again
Format LinkPosted on June 22, 2022June 22, 2022Author TUC Digital LabCategories What we're reading

Knowledge is power – how unions can use data

The UnionDues podcast covers the publication of a new report on unions and data from Unions21.

Continue reading Knowledge is power – how unions can use data
Format LinkPosted on April 28, 2022April 28, 2022Author TUC Digital LabCategories What we're reading

Why are we talking data in unions?

Becky Wright previews Unions21’s upcoming conference, which will feature a strand on improving the use of data in unions.

Continue reading Why are we talking data in unions?
Format LinkPosted on April 1, 2022Author TUC Digital LabCategories What we're reading

Little Tech is coming for workers

Report and database from CoWorker.org, investigating the current wave of work related tech products. A record amount of capital is being invested in developing new management software tools that are being released without proper consideration for their harmful effects on working people.

Continue reading Little Tech is coming for workers
Format LinkPosted on November 19, 2021November 19, 2021Author TUC Digital LabCategories What we're reading

Powering the picket line: Workers are turning to tech in their labor battles

The Washington Post covers a increase in worker and union online activity around disputes in the US.

Continue reading Powering the picket line: Workers are turning to tech in their labor battles
Format LinkPosted on November 5, 2021November 5, 2021Author TUC Digital LabCategories What we're reading

Slackers of the world, Unite!

The Atlantic covers productivity software Slack, and how adopting a new tool for work can alter workplace culture and employment relations, for the better or worse.

Continue reading Slackers of the world, Unite!
Format LinkPosted on October 15, 2021October 15, 2021Author TUC Digital LabCategories What we're reading

Can tech help boost worker power?

Here’s a recording of a Resolution Foundation fringe event from Congress 2021. Prospect’s Andrew Pakes and UNISON’s David Arnold join the Resolution Ventures’ Louise Marston to look at how tech might help build power for workers, and help unions to support them in doing that.

Continue reading Can tech help boost worker power?
Format LinkPosted on October 1, 2021October 1, 2021Author TUC Digital LabCategories What we're reading

Building digital democracy

TSSA’s Gareth Theobald looks at the union’s next steps in increasing levels of democratic engagement for members via digital.

Continue reading Building digital democracy
Format LinkPosted on September 30, 2021September 30, 2021Author TUC Digital LabCategories What we're reading

New power, tech unions and Wetherspoons’ WhatsApps

The New Power Review newsletter looks at examples of unions using technology to organise.

Continue reading New power, tech unions and Wetherspoons’ WhatsApps
Format LinkPosted on September 9, 2021September 9, 2021Author TUC Digital LabCategories What we're reading

Beyond Government: Democracy in Trade Unions

Democratic Society’s Anthony Zacharzewski introduces their project to find new ways for unions to use digital methods to engage more members in their democracies.

Continue reading Beyond Government: Democracy in Trade Unions
Format LinkPosted on September 7, 2021September 7, 2021Author TUC Digital LabCategories What we're reading

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