USDAW web site by SCO UK becomes Labourstart's site of the week

SCO's London office has completed a major new web site for USDAW, the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. The site was named union website of the week by UK online journal Labourstart.

USDAW is one of Britain's largest unions, with over 325,000 members.

Further components are now being developed for the site, which will make it one of the largest union web sites SCO has built.

Eric Lee is a world renowned guru of unions and the web and the editor of Labourstart, the world's most popular union website. Here's what he had to say about the USDAW site that he made Labourstart's website of the week.

"Yesterday was 'Respect for Shopworkers' Day in Britain making this an appropriate occasion to salute the new website of the 324,000 member union of shopworkers (and others). "

"USDAW's website will look strangely familiar to trade unionists in Australia and New Zealand as it was created by Social Change Online, designers of the some the very best trade union websites in that region of the world. "

"But this is, I believe, Social Change Online's first UK trade union site (and, one hopes, not their last). "

"Site features include daily news updates on the front page, online surveys, campaigns, an online change-of-details form, jobs available at USDAW (there are 6 listed for September), and so on. "

"Oddly enough, you cannot join online -- USDAW still requires your signature on paper. And Labourstart's newswire would be a useful feature on the site as well. "

"A clue that the site is doing well is the fact that nearly 700 people have voted in its current online survey, which asks whether one has experienced violence or abuse at work. Sadly, 72% answered 'yes' to that question."