Ideas

Lobbying During A Crisis
Louise McMullan explains how Equity and its members have been lobbying and campaigning the Government to protect workers and indeed the entire art, entertainment and recreation sector in this crisis
blog: 20 May 2020

Understanding Strategic Corporate Research
Becky Wright, Executive Director Unions 21, outlines the benefits of strategic corporate research for union organising.
blog: 27 April 2020

Getting the right digital tools
Henry Skewes explores the digital tools we use at Unions 21, what we have learnt from our experience with remote working and how digital tools have improved the way we work.
blog: 16 April 2020

Managing home workers
Collette Bradford, Head of organising and engagement at the PDA, outlines how to effectively manage a remote team in this challenging and ever changing time for unions and wider society.
blog: 14 April 2020

Unions 21 webinars: A how-to guide
A quick how-to guide to joining our online Masterclasses.
blog: 14 April 2020

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