Prospect and Bectu teams from the UK dug deep into the possibilities of using Spotlight – our privacy respecting, worker empowering tool – at our event today. Unions can use Spotlight in their campaigns – track working time, use of work apps throughout the day, distance traveled for work and so much…
Service Design is a broad and diverse discipline which seeks to optimise an organisationâs services by focusing on aligning the experience people have of using them. Itâs a way of working thatâs…
To date, making decisions based on data to improve union experience has mostly been an aspiration, rather than the reality for most trade unions. There are some good examples of testing and…
Digital change projects are only partly about making sure a new bit of technology works. Even the best specified new tech tools wonât be any use if people donât agree to change their current…
âItâs the most wonderful time of the year!â âŚright?âRetail Holiday Horrorâ by BagoGames, FlickrHot chocolate, holiday cheer and time with family: itâs the holiday season we all hope for. Unfortunately, for the millions of people working in retail every…
As the barrier between work and personal time erodes, a new global campaign to help workers reclaim their right to disconnect from their jobs is launched. Lead by UNI Global Union’s Professionals & Managers (UNI P&M) the campaign will be rolled out worldwide with the help of the first-ever…
At the TUC Digital Lab, we ran a survey amongst our affiliated unions, looking at their readiness for digital transformation. We found a mixed picture, with a number of technical and cultural areas…
One of the challenges in looking at the experience of digital in UK unions is that there isn’t really any single accepted definition of âdigitalâ across the movement. Different unions currently…
Across industries, and across the country, workers are embracing the power of salary transparency using crowdsourced spreadsheets to share information about their compensation. Inspired by a spreadsheet created by adjunct professors at US universities,…
To help understand how well UK unions are prepared for that digital transformation, we worked with digital agency Outlandish to survey and research unions’ current capacity and experience with…