When we think of how we can use the Internet in the service of trade union rights, we’re usually thinking of three things: 1. Provision of information through websites 2. Online protest and solidarity tools…
In November last year, the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia closed down for a $400 million face-lift. It was scheduled to re-open in 18 months time. Several weeks earlier, the Hilton management told shocked employees…
Trade union websites, including those of teachers’ unions, are about to enter their third generation.
It’s one thing to have a website that a few hundred or thousand members of your union visit. It’s quite another to have a newswire service of your own, with your content appearing simultaneously on…
No one really knows how many people are connected to the Internet these days but one good estimate is about 300 million. How many of these are trade unionists? Here one would only be guessing,…
A very long time ago (in Internet time, that is), websites were designed and maintained by people known as “webmasters”. These were the people who had the skills that organizations needed if they wanted a…
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It’s that time of year again — time to receive my annual message from Peter, asking me to do a “global year in review”. This time, I thought it might be interesting to take a…
In the beginning, trade unions created websites.
The TUC has launched a new website and, to come right to the point, it’s a huge improvement over the previous one. And it’s about time.