Publications

Covid-19 and The Work of Unions: New Challenges and New Responses
Our new report asks, how have unions rose to the challenge of 2020 and continued to function effectively? What has been the impact on how we work and how we may work in future?
publication: 14 January 2021

Atypical Workers Trade Union Organising Handbook
The Atypical Workers Trade Union Organising Handbook featuring Executive Director of Unions 21 Becky Wright
publication: 7 July 2020

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

Policies for Decent Labour Standards in Britain - How Britain can avoid a post-Brexit race to the bottom in labour standards
To ensure that Britain does not fall into a competitive race to the bottom, it must put in place a robust way of enforcing decent labour standards
publication: 6 June 2018

Change for the Better
publication: 22 May 2018

Roadmap To Renewal: Manifesto for Change
publication: 12 April 2018

Organising Innovation: Unions, young workers and precarity
publication: 20 February 2018

Young Professional Workers, Trade Unions and the Hourglass Economy
The structural reasons for declining trade union membership rates among the young have been widely documented. In a nutshell, the young are increasingly concentrated in lower- value service industries which have traditionally been under-unionised.
publication: 12 February 2018

Managing Brexit
publication: 13 December 2017

Trade Unions Online
How are unions actually using the web and what will be the challenges to them using digital platforms and media? This report goes through all of these challenges, paving the way for unions to continue the conversation on how they need to change.
publication: 19 October 2017