TUC digital comms experts Riz Hussain and Scott Gilfillan took part in this webinar on 15 May, to discuss how trade unionists can use features on social media to organise, network and campaign. You…Read more…
Privacy by design: Keeping union digital projects data safe
‘Privacy by design’ is the mindset we need to adopt when designing any data collection that involves personal data. In a nutshell it’s about considering data protection and privacy issues upfront in…Read more…
Welcoming new members to our unions: TUC Digital Lab workshop report
The first TUC Digital Lab workshop (Friday 26th April) focused on using digital channels to welcome new members to our unions. Colleagues from different roles across 14 unions came together for a…Read more…
8 principles for union digital transformation
At the TUC Digital Lab, we seek to develop solutions for the union movement, in the most sustainable and effective way. These are the 8 principles we try to follow in our work (v1.0). The 8…Read more…
A Digital Lab for the union movement
Technology is transforming pretty much every area of our economy and society. Digital is now the mainstream choice for day-to-day interactions, raising expectations and making new choices possible…Read more…
Union innovation in Denmark – HK Lab
Mathias Askholm co-leads HK Lab, an ambitious innovation project at Denmark’s HK union that is helping the union and its members adapt to the implications of technological change. He joined us for a…Read more…
Kick-starting the union: BECTU VFX recruitment pilot
BECTU (the entertainment industry sector of Prospect) worked with TUC Digital in late 2017 to pilot a new way of joining a union for the London Visual Effects (VFX) sector. Read on to find our more…Read more…
Introducing Megaphone UK, the TUC’s new online campaign platform
We’re excited to be taking the next step in our work supporting unions’ online campaigns this week. Our 3 year old Going to Work campaign platform is about to transform into Megaphone UK, a…Read more…
Improving online joining in unions – TUC workshop outcomes
This is a write up from a practical workshop we ran at the TUC on improving online joining processes in unions. We had 30 attendees with a broad range of staff functions including IT, comms,…Read more…
How can we make it easier to join trade unions?
What’s the most important page on a union website? I’d suggest it’s not the home page, or even the General Secretary’s biography, but the online joining form. In many unions, a majority of members…Read more…
Congress 2018 digital hub – a snapshot of union digital
Just back from the TUC’s 150th anniversary Congress in Manchester, where we had a Digital Hub stall, helping delegates make the most of tech to follow the conference. In between charging up…Read more…
Online to offline organising – lessons from the US and Australia
Digital offers unions ways to reach out to workers that we’d find hard to access traditionally, due to hostile employers, geographical dispersion or limited organiser resources. It can also provide…Read more…
Why is the TUC asking you to opt back onto mailing lists?
Have you recently been asked to opt back into an email mailing list you were already subscribed to? If so, you’re not alone. It’s all to do with the changes to Data Protection regulations that come…Read more…
Thoughtworks accelerator programme: The Digital Union
Back in November, I spent an interesting day in the company of dozens of Thoughtworks staff and others from London’s tech community. I was one of 6 presenters talking about real world problems that…Read more…
A Digital Hub for Congress 2017
Congress is an evolving event, and year on year we’ve been increasing the levels of digital technologies that we use to run and communicate Congress. This year we’ve made a number of…Read more…
Going paperless at TUC Congress
Anyone who’s been to the TUC Congress or any other big motion-based union conference knows about the paper. While democracy is the intention, a heavy bag of paper is one of the products. For…Read more…
Making trade unions more agile
At the end of 2016, I took part in a design sprint looking at the unionfinder functionality on the TUC website. The tool matches thousands of people to TUC affiliated unions every month, but it could…Read more…
User needs for union joining forms
Union joining forms are an important but often overlooked step in union organising. You need a process to get people into the union, check applicability in some cases, gather their contact data and…Read more…