In defence of workers’ data

On September 5, a European Court of Human Rights judgement, which could spur similar claims across Europe, has reinforced the rights of employees to have a significant degree of privacy when sending and receiving workplace emails. The Court ruled that an employer “cannot reduce private social life…

Philip Jennings on BBC Radio 4

Philip Jennings offers the labour perspective in this interesting BBC Radio 4 debate about robotisation, digitalisation and disruption in the developing countries. The discussants mention the growing importance of new digital skills, the unacceptable high youth unemployment despite good levels of…

More reasons to worry about AI in war and peace

More than 100 academics and industry leaders are urging the United Nations to ban lethal autonomous weapons. Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk, Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, and 114 others signed the open letter to the UN requesting the ban on killer artificial intelligence, published…

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Improving the experience of joining UNISON online: day one of our design sprint

For five days eight UNISON staff are working together to decide what a future experience for joining UNISON online should look like. Day one focused on a review of how online joining works at the moment for UNISON members and what kind of vision and goals we might set for a new online join experience.

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Improving the experience of joining UNISON online: day one of our design sprint

For five days eight UNISON staff are working together to decide what a future experience for joining UNISON online should look like. Day one focused on a review of how online joining works at the…

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What’s it like being a digital data analyst at UNISON?

I’ve been in post as Digital Data Analyst for 12 weeks now. In that time, over half a million people visited and 1.6 million pages have been viewed on the UNISON website. We’ve had over 33,000 people join UNISON online. Our social media posts have reached over 3 million timelines. We’ve received thousands of responses to […]

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What’s it like being a digital data analyst at UNISON?

I’ve been in post as Digital Data Analyst for 12 weeks now. In that time, over half a million people visited and 1.6 million pages have been viewed on the UNISON website. We’ve had over 33,000 people…

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Vote for UNISON as a digital leader

Exciting news! UNISON has been recognised in a very prestigious UK wide list of ‘the leading champions of digital transformation‘. And now we need your votes!

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Roll up, roll up! We’re taking bets on how well you know our members…

Membership organisations like UNISON have long struggled to make sure their members read their communications. And since the digital revolution the problem has only got bigger.

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Women Byte Back – inspiring women

Recently, Digital UNISON and UNISONlearning teamed up on a training day for UNISON’s women members at Bletchley Park. Here are some of the highlights of the day.

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