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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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 for several hundred organisers and reps at Congress…

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…