Every union in Britain can start saving money today by abandoning Microsoft Office and switching over to use OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org).

I often tell people that I work with unions and the new communications technologies and get asked if that means email and the web. It doesn’t; it means those technologies plus others, including some which…

Back in 2003, I wrote a short article for this magazine about a new online encyclopedia called the Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org). At the time, the Wikipedia had 180,000 articles in English alone, which at the time…

Several years ago, one could already detect that their were two types of websites. The first type consisted of online brochures. People spoke about “online publishing” and the idea was that you could use the…

A few weeks ago, union-backed campaigners managed to get a billboard erected not far from the corporate headquarters of Wal-Mart, the world’s largest employer. The ad called upon Wal-Mart management to recognize workers’ rights —…

At the recent May Day march and rally in London, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber made a strong call for “a Trade Union Freedom Bill to allow unions to properly protect their members”. I wonder…

If one thing has become clear in trade union use of the Internet over the last decade, it is this: without a list of your members’ and supporters’ email addresses, there is almost no point…

With nearly 7,000 votes cast, a winner has emerged in the 9th annual Labour Website of the Year competition — and for the third time, it goes to a British website. The 200,000 member NASUWT…

Ajax was a mythical Greek hero who faught against Troy. Ajax is also a powder you’d use to clean dishes and sinks. And today it is the name of a group of technologies which together…

A few years back, the TUC launched a website specifically aimed at union reps. It was called “unionreps.org.uk”. The site has a few features, such as news (including a LabourStart newswire), a directory of resources,…