Next year, millennials will make up more than 50% of the workforce. Those who entered work during the internet age are nearly all instinctively digital-first. They’re also mobile, connected…
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Lessons from Art + Museum TransparencyIn May 2019, a group of art workers and museum workers initiated a crowd-sourced Google spreadsheet where thousands of industry professionals self-reported information about their salaries. Calling their group Art …
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Are you election ready on Facebook?
As we enter a likely general election, many unions will be thinking how they can get their issues across more clearly online during such a high profile campaign moment. Social advertising has become…
Over the summer, numerous more examples of how data is used to manipulate us have flooded the news. Take the documentary aired now on Netflix called The Great Hack on the link between ruthless data brokers and politics. Or the BBC program aired August 11 called Is Your Boss Watching You. It is so…
On Wednesday 26th July at UCL we held our fourth TUC Digital Lab session, looking at the challenges and opportunities for unions in making greater use of digital in organising. The session began with…
Alex Lloyd-Hunter of digital agency Forward Action was one of the judges in this year’s TUC Communications Awards. And before the ceremony, he talked to a group of union communicators about his…
Drag has always been there for our community, and we are the best version of ourselves when the community is there for us, too.(This piece contains instead the ideas, opinions, and personal judgements of a Coworker.org petition leader, and are not repr…
Lots of folks love the warm summer weather, but it can be less enjoyable — and even dangerous — for workers when temperatures increase in their workplaces. For example, what happens if the air conditioning breaks in your workplace on a hot, summer day?…
Met your unreal girlfriend: Hikari Azuma, the digital assistant that is designed to make you like her. Live with her. Maybe even love her. Whilst Amazon and Google are busy persuading us all of the use value of their digital assistants, Alexa and Google Home, Takechi’s company Gatebox has gone one…
UNI has warned far and wide about the challenges, dangers even, of using data, algorithms and autonomous systems in human resources. Our article When Algorithms Hire and Fire asks you to consider for a moment whether you would have the job you have today, if an algorithm had hired you?