Skip to content
Makes You Think

Makes You Think

Industrial Relations and Union Consultant

Makes You Think

  • Home
  • Consultancy
  • Podcasts
  • Media
  • Loudshirts Blog
  • Say Hello
  •  
Close search

Loudshirts Blog

Category  Good Ideas

Good Ideas  Loudshirts Blog

What’s branding got to do with it…..

1/10/2021

As the RCM unveils a smart new look, we signpost the background into union/branding love-ins. CONTINUE READING

Good Ideas  Podcasts

What price EDI?

16/02/2021

PDAU’s EDI model is unlike anything I’ve seen before. So how and why does it work? and what can the rest of us learn? CONTINUE READING

Good Ideas  Podcasts

All aboard for the Resolution Revolution?

9/02/2021

Can better mediation lead an industrial revolution? Find out on the new Uniondues podcast. CONTINUE READING

Good Ideas  Loudshirts Blog

How Flexible Is Flexi-Working?

13/05/2020

Flexi-Working is great, but not a magic wand for all employment ills CONTINUE READING

Good Ideas  Loudshirts Blog

Click And Collect Jobs Catastrophe And The Case for UBI

11/05/2020

The new normal isn’t going to be good news for many of the 6m workers currently furloughed. Put simply, click-and collect needs far fewer staff than pre-Covid habits. CONTINUE READING

Good Ideas  Loudshirts Blog

Social Rights In Post-Covid Britain

9/04/2020

The campaign for Social Rights to form an integral part of post-Covid Britain is growing. Here’s my take on the Why and the How. CONTINUE READING

Handwashing is a must to contain coronavirus
Good Ideas  Loudshirts Blog  Politics

Coronavirus, Sick Pay & The Case For Government Action

3/03/2020

Making special bespoke arrangements for those in financial distress as a result of quarantine and self-isolation is possible, appropriate and necessary. CONTINUE READING

Good Ideas

Injunction Makes Post Strikes More Likely

14/11/2019

A 97% strike vote on a 76% turnout can’t be fixed by court action CONTINUE READING

Good Ideas  Loudshirts Blog

Union Fan Clubs: A Game-Changer?

30/10/2019

The newly-launched #CWU supporters club could be a game-changer CONTINUE READING

Good Ideas  Media  Solutions - How I Can Help

Birmingham bin-workers

7/02/2019

I was pleased to talk to BBC WM on Tuesday about the Birmingham bin-workers’ dispute. Even more pleased to see that it looks like there is some prospect of resolution. Here’s what I had to say…. CONTINUE READING

Posts navigation

Older posts

The Loudshirts blog, UnionDues podcast, Workplace commentary

Welcome to the Loudshirts Blog.  Here you will find all my posts, including those originally published elsewhere.

I write on unions, work, society, human rights, civil society plus some stuff on sport (rugby and football usually) and reflections on parenthood and student days.

All those posts that are about making the world a better place can be found in the Good Ideas category.

Why Loudshirts?  See this blogpost

You’ll find my latest posts on the Home page. If you see something you like, please share it!

Subscribe to my blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,375 other subscribers

Popular Posts

  • Feathers and Pennies – the 1888 Matchgirls and us
  • This much we know – the union thirst for data
  • Microchips Are For Pets, Not People
  • All Change! (Or Change Is All)
  • Updated: Possible new anti-strike laws: What are they? Will they work?
  • Categories
  • Tags
  • Archive
  • About
  • Good Ideas
  • Ideas
  • Loudshirts Blog
  • Media
  • Podcasts
  • Politics
  • Reviews
  • Society
  • Solutions – How I Can Help
  • Sport
  • Stories
  • Uncategorized
#Unions21 ACAS Becky Wright Brexit business Covid Covid 19 CWU devolution Digital Football gig economy GMB Government Housing IPSO IWGB Josiah Mortimer Labour Low Pay Commission LRD Matthew Taylor Melanie Simms Mel Simms NUJ Organising podcast podcasting politics Press Regulation public policy RCN Royal Mail Social Care Society strikes trade unions Trump tuc uber UnionDues Unions UNITE work youth
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • Home
  • Consultancy
  • Podcasts
  • Media
  • Loudshirts Blog
  • Say Hello
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © Simon Sapper | Makes You Think 2023

Website created by Russell Hill

  • Privacy & Cookies: This site uses strictly necessary cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. Privacy Policy