Blogs
Refining digital strategy
Duncan Robertson, Unions 21 Digital Consultant, delves into how to create and refine your unions' digital strategy to boost engagement.
blog: 3 April 2020
Member engagement doesn’t work in isolation
Vic Barlow takes a look at how member engagement works and why it needs to be done in partnership across your union and with a clear strategy behind it.
blog: 25 March 2020
How to make union working from home, work
For some unions, the government guidelines have asked them to think about home working on a large scale, possibly for the very first time. So I wanted to share some ideas on how to handle home working, both as a staff member and manager.
blog: 17 March 2020
Digital organising: Overcoming the trust barrier
Henry Skewes, projects co-ordinator at Unions 21, explores the challenges of building trust in digital organising and how we at unions 21 have experimented with how to overcome the trust barrier in our WorksForUs project.
blog: 5 March 2020
Changing Work Landscape
Roy Rickhuss CBE, General Secretary of Community, explores our changing work landscape and how unions can be prepared for it.
blog: 4 March 2020
Anticipating Change: Why should unions do foresight?
Aida Ponce Del Castillo, Senior Researcher at the ETUI Foresight Unit explores why unions need to get to grips with the concept of foresight in order to effectively prepare for the future work landscape.
blog: 17 February 2020
Reconnecting Workers with the Wealth They Create
Damon Silvers explores the role of collective bargaining in building solidarity across jobs and skills.
blog: 6 February 2020
Post-election: The lay of the land for unions
James Morris sets out the likely political priorities of the new Government and what unions might be able to focus on in their campaigns to have an impact on the political process.
blog: 16 January 2020
Changing Landscapes for Unions
Unions 21 Chair Sue Ferns sets out what unions can expect from the coming year from Unions 21 in the changing landscapes unions face.
blog: 9 January 2020
The United Workers Union: New unionism starts here
Professor Anthony Forsyth outlines the merger process between two key unions in Australia that have helped those in insecure work and what may be next for these unions.
blog: 12 December 2019
