Unions 21 hosts a webinar to launch a series of blogs around technology policy at unions. These blogs have been written based on conversations with leaders in the tech for unions sector. The blogs cover the following key themes:

What can unions learn from hostile actors’ use of technology? What are the far right or other hostile actors doing well with technology? Should we copy them? Spoiler alert: there was some disagreement on this topic.
What do unions need to do to successfully use technology? Success in technology is about a lot more than buying a tool: you need to build capability, get permission for experimentation and support staff with time and training.
How can we build power in our approach to technology adoption? Our contributors were clear: unions need to lean into existing sources of power, like our democracy, rather than seek to be something we’re not. This might mean we’re not as fast as others, but that doesn’t need to be a bad thing.

Nick Scott, Director of the Centre for Responsible Union AI at Unions 21, in conversation with:

Genny Mayhew, Chief Technology Officer at SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, where she oversees the IT and Data Systems and Analytics Departments.
Craig Johnson, President and CTO of Change Agent, a company building an LLM-based (AI) tool specifically for progressive organisations.
Sam Jeffers, partner of Join Together, a co-operative building software to help workers join unions online quickly and easily, with higher-quality and more complete data for the union.
Peyman Owladi, Founder of Poteris, a co-operative building bespoke tools (like PCS’s Rep Coach) for unions that want to connect better with their members.
Antti Mäki of Uniofy, a company building comprehensive digital organising software for the union movement.