The effects of the pandemic have cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, with many more still at risk. Redundancies have especially been a problem in parts of the private sector where unionisation rates…Read more…
Designing online forms to engage with workers about their work
In the TUC Digital Lab we’ve been doing some research into using different formats of work advice to find and engage with non-member workers. We’ll publish more about this soon, but I…Read more…
New digital tactics behind our key workers’ pay rise campaign
As MPs stood on their doorsteps and clapped, offered platitudes and had their pictures taken – there was a glimmer of hope for the millions of overworked and low-paid key workers who are…Read more…
Making a virtual out of a necessity: NASUWT online conference 2021 case study
Organising a fully virtual and democratic trade union conference. By NASUWT’s Sammy Connell and Chris Weavers. The NASUWT held its centenary Annual Conference at the ICC Belfast Convention…Read more…
Testing your union’s new digital services by prototyping
Prototyping is a very important tool when it comes to designing new digital systems. As non-profits, reliant on members’ contributions, unions have to be careful to get the best returns out of…Read more…
Discover, define, develop: A model for designing for change in unions
Last year, we launched a new module in the TUC’s leadership development programme, Leading Change. It expands our long running course to also look at how digital can support (and challenge)…Read more…
Unions and digital disruptors
In recent years, new digital start-ups have changed the faces of whole industries. New entrants have risen to dominance in their sectors and previously major players have collapsed. The pace of…Read more…
Online joining in unions – current and best practice
In 2021, people expect good quality digital interactions with all companies and organisations. Unions are no exceptions – prospective members will expect to be able to easily and immediately…Read more…
Producing union digital conferences
As Covid-19 stopped mass gatherings in person this year, many unions had to make a choice whether to cancel their big conference events or to quickly rework long-running formats for a digital medium….Read more…
Delivering for “different” in 2021
This year’s been longer than usual and mostly awful, but it’s given us all some time to think. One of the things we’ve been reflecting on is the immediate future of work, whether the “new…Read more…
Improving your video call presence – a how to guide
Since the lockdown, video conferencing has become second nature for our team meetings and one to one calls. And more of us are giving presentations online…Read more…
Congress 2020: Our first online Congress
This has been the first year that Congress couldn’t take place in its usual physical format. We have learned a lot as part of taking as much as we could of our flagship event into a new online…Read more…
Recruiting hard-to-engage workers on digital during Covid-19
TUC Digital Lab case study with BFAWU Coronavirus is changing how people work and how unions organise. Face to face contact in every sector is being reduced due to social distancing measures, more…Read more…
Benchmarking our digital organising
How we adapt union organising to fit a digital-first world is a critical question for unions. Even before the pandemic we were seeing increasing organising challenges from fragmented workplaces and…Read more…
4 things we learned from running Organise 2020
The TUC hosted our first major online digital event, Organise 2020, on 9-11 July. It had originally been conceived as an offline organising summit…Read more…
Supporting union governance in digital transformation
Lots of us have had digital transformation thrust upon us by the coronavirus pandemic, having to switch up our time-honoured ways of working with little notice. Over the last few months, we have had…Read more…
Double-down on reps, not digital
By Eth Morgan & John Chadfield We’re two tech workers; a software engineer and a product manager. Our role over the years has been to develop and maintain the kind of digital apps and tools that…Read more…
10 digital organising sessions at #Organise2020
Organise 2020 is the TUC’s free online festival of ideas in union organising, taking place from 9-11 July 2020. And TUC Digital will be joining in too. Effective union organising has to include…Read more…
Benchmarking your union’s digital journey – TUC digital healthcheck 2020 edition
We’ve just released the latest version of our digital healthcheck tool, with the latest major release (version 3) seeing a significant revision. It has been more than two years since the last version…Read more…
Choosing the right video conferencing platforms for your union
Before the coronavirus crisis, video conferencing was something only a few people used regularly for work. With many more working from home now, it’s suddenly become their main connection with…Read more…