Ideas
Trade Unions And The Process Of Change with Betsy Dillner, Dean Rogers
The Change Challenge is sometimes defined as knowing things have to be different but not how to make them so. Trade unions and other membership organisations often find the appetite for change in a “light bulb” moment usually accompanied by some kind of...
podcast: 2 December 2019
What I learned from creating Europe’s largest marketing trade body
Chris Combemale, CEO of the DMA, Europe's largest marketing trade body, outlines the merger process between DMA and IDM and how institutional change was successfully enacted.
blog: 28 November 2019
Adapting to the gig economy
Paul Fleming outlines what steps Equity is taking to change its structures to respond the needs of members in the gig economy
blog: 26 November 2019
Engaging members in new ways
Andrew Pakes & Christina Colclough explore the collaboration between Uni Global Union and Prospect in discovering new ways of organising different types of workers with their latest joint project Thoughtexchange.
blog: 21 November 2019
Online Petitions: A way forward for unions?
Henry Skewes discusses our WorksForUs Project, what we've learnt about engaging young workers, what lessons unions can learn about using online petitions and where we go next.
blog: 20 November 2019
Developing an Organisation Strategy: More Than Just a Piece of Paper
Mark Thomas of the Royal College of General Practitioners asks what do we mean by strategic planning? And how do we get it right from an organisational perspective?
blog: 14 November 2019
Doing Strategy: A Practical Union View
What does "Doing Strategy" actually look like from the union perspective and how is it continually implemented, Rob Yeldham outlines how he and the CSP practically do strategy.
blog: 12 November 2019
How can unions make a start on innovation?
Becky Wright sets out the exciting possibilities and opportunities that come from union innovation and asks what more we need to do to innovate as a movement?
blog: 6 November 2019
New Model Unions: Options for the 21st Century
By Paul Willman, John Forth and Alex Bryson. The new Unions 21 publication outlines the model by which unions currently operate, how they could change in the future to maximise revenue and what model could fit best for unions in facing the future.
publication: 5 November 2019
New Union Organising Models with John Forth and Mathias Askholm
In the latest @unions21 podcast, @beckyunions21 and @simonsapper talk with @JohnForth and @MathiasA about union organising models.
podcast: 4 November 2019
