Trade unionists as much as anyone else need to make the most of their time – and the web is now full of time-management tools that promise to make all of us more efficient. I’ve…

March 6th 2008 has been declared a global day of action in support of Iranian workers by two leading international trade union bodies. The International Trade Union Confederation, which unites national trade union centres such…

There’s a saying the in the trade union movement that if workers can last one day longer than the employer during a strike, they will have won.

The decision by the TUC to launch a slick new website in Polish (http://www.pracawbrytanii.eu/) represents a huge step forward.

“Tigmoo” is one of those expressions that newcomers to the British labour movement will be unfamiliar with. It’s an acronym for “this great movement of ours” which was one of the most common cliches used…

Two things are happening to software that should be of interest to trade unionists. First, software that used to cost a great deal of money is now often available completely free of charge. Second, that…

The issue of private equity has suddenly burst onto the trade union scene, almost out of nowhere. In the last few weeks, the GMB and other unions have picketed, demonstrated, issued press releases and campaigned…

From the very earliest days of the web, browsers had something called a ‘home page’. This was the default web page that would come up when you’d launch your browser and connect to the net….

Long before the Internet became a household word, the founders of Sun Microsystems coined a corporate slogan which – at the time – made little sense: “The network is the computer.” I thought of that…

Often when left-wing people talk about the Internet, the subject of a “digital divide” comes up. According to the common wisdom, the Internet is all well and good when we’re talking about well-paid, educated people…