the site

tigmoo.co.uk is a network for collating and republishing feeds from blogs about UK trades unions, so you can subscribe to lots of union perspectives by monitoring just one feed.

techy techy bits

Well... We were very impressed with Bloggers4Labour, which is a very successful blog aggregator, and thought that something a bit like that might be useful to union bloggers in the UK.

Recent years have seen a growth in blogging in the UK, and whilst we're a long way behind the US in terms of blog use, the scene isn't entirely irrelevant. Lots of unions, branches and ordinary activists are taking the opportunity to publish their own experiences and thoughts through the platform of blogging.

But where do you start? With millions of blogs out there, where do you locate the UK union ones, and which ones are worth reading? That's where blog aggregators come in. Sites like this one scan all the blogs in a particular sector, and republish a list of links to everyone's newest posts. Make one link (or subscribe in your RSS reader) and you don't need to remember a dozen different links - just let the news come to you instead.

Tigmoo WTF?

"TIGMOO" is a faintly tongue-in-cheek piece of jargon, used affectionately by those on the inside to describe the UK's union movement. It stands (sort of) for "This Great Movement Of Ours", a common cliché from many of the great union orators of yore.

However, we take pains to point out that it isn't considered important enough for Wikipedia.