I haven’t done a careful academic study of this, but it seems to me that few unions in Britain offer more opportunities for members to express themselves online than Napo — the union for family…
The following article, published in the most recent issue of Labour Research magazine, was out of date before it ever saw print. Working together with the union and the global union federations, we were able…
Unions that want to recruit new members will make it as easy as possible to join. In this century, that means allowing people to join unions online.
For the first time in memory — perhaps the first time ever — American unions are discussing their future. And that discussion is taking place, in large part, on the web.
Most unions that have websites have sections that are devoted to health and safety issues. But frequently those are among the more static parts of a website. Once set up, they are rarely updated. To…
Unions tend to be fairly conservative, particularly when it comes to technology. They are not known as “early adopters”. And that means that sometimes, while they wait for certain technologies to come down in price,…
It’s that time of year again — voting has begun the Labour Website of the Year. This annual competition, which began in 1997, allows trade unionists around the world to vote for their favourite union…
Imagine this as David Blaine’s next trick He stops a person on the street, stares into the stranger’s eyes and says — “Your web browser is . . . Internet Explorer!” Instead of being amazed,…
These days, when you want to communicate, you have a real choice. It used to be that you’d either phone or send a letter. Then came fax machines, then email, then text messaging. These days,…
A couple of years ago, I attended a meeting with the staff of the IT department of one of Britain’s largest trade unions. We were discussing a plan for me to train union officials to…