What's new
New tools, guides, and improvements as UnionOps grows.
This is a living list, newest first. Each note links to the tool or guide when there is one to open. Day-to-day fixes stay off this page so the growth is easier to see.
August 2026
New
Bylaw Builder
Fill in your local name, quorum, and executive structure to draft a standard bylaws template, then copy or download the text for Word.
Guide
Local Bylaws: The Rules of Your Local
A floor guide to what must be in local bylaws — executive, quorum, signing authority, and elections — and how to amend them with notice and a GMM vote.
Improved
Steward 101 — modules, toolkit, and Brand Kit exports
Four time-boxed modules, a floor toolkit with pocket-card and intake exports, and a Brand Kit nudge so printables show your local number.
Guide
Steward playbooks hub
One front door for Steward 101, Officer Learning self-tests, and every floor playbook — with a linked training path diagram.
Improved
Officer Learning — scenarios, timelines, and pocket sheets
Each module now has six quiz questions, a D0–D7 worked-file timeline, Apply/Don't apply scenario frames, printable take-to-meeting sheets, and links from matching floor playbooks.
Open Officer Learning — scenarios, timelines, and pocket sheets
New
Steward meeting guides
Three on-device workspaces — five-point filter diagram, Meiorin and work-hardening visuals, pocket PDFs in each tool, and practice links from the steward playbooks hub.
Guide
Officer Learning — definitive floor path
Six bilingual modules with a live learning path, teaching diagrams, tickable floor checklists, printable FAR sheets, and links into steward tools and peer guides.
Improved
Logo control on canvas tools
Every canvas tool now shares none/lockup/mark logo plus a Show local number toggle — turn the label off for mark-only visuals.
Improved
Board Notice Maker — logo and layouts
Pick stack, band, or split layouts, choose none/lockup/mark logo, and export workplace notices that match your Brand Kit.
Guide
Workplace mapping and organic leaders
Chart every coworker by department and shift, find organic leaders, and score support from 1 to 5. Use the sample wall chart, 1-on-1s, and a spreadsheet on a personal device.
Guide
Steward 101: Your Role and Rights
A foundational floor guide to the three hats, representation rights in discipline meetings, and the duty of fair representation.
Guide
The Steward's Guide to Grievances
A floor playbook with a forum picker, 6 W's intake sheet, example step table, open-file checklist, and member-talk tips. Confirm clocks in your Collective Agreement.
Improved
Brand Assets stay in the installed app
Downloading a logo from Brand Assets no longer opens a new tab that kicks you out of the home-screen shortcut. On the phone you get the share sheet; on desktop the file still saves as before.
Guide
Steward and comms playbooks rewritten
The Blueprint, labour guides, Strike, and Photo Consent now walk real scenarios — four channels, a sample comms week, decision gates, and tool links you can use on the floor.
Improved
Cleaner graphic backgrounds
Picket, thanks, spotlight, and results graphics use a solid brand colour with light depth — not multi-colour washes that muddy the plate. Type stays light over a short bottom lift.
Improved
OFL, NUPGE, and CLC in Sources
Comms Resources now points to the Ontario Federation of Labour, NUPGE, and the Canadian Labour Congress for movement education. The same links appear on membership, boards, Blueprint, and crisis guides — and in the website ZIP footer.
Improved
Coral or gold for College Support
In Brand Kit, College Support coral and gold appear as separate Look cards. Pick gold for the gold campaign field and white-and-coral lockup, or coral for the coral field.
Guide
Joint committee playbook
Walk a campus issue to the provincial table, keep union caucus notes private, then explain signed minutes to members with letterhead, flyers, and email.
New
Circles for more than one local
In Local Portal, tick members from more than one local when you create a committee Circle. Invite the union side from other locals. Hall still belongs to one local.
Improved
Org Chart list layouts + blank LEC Word sheet
Print a poster, a Position | Name list, or a list with campus codes. Need a blank branded Word table? Document Generator has an LEC directory template that does not pull your on-device names.
New
College Support Look in Brand Kit
College Support locals can pick the CAAT-S coral Look in Brand Kit, or keep national OPSEU / SEFPO blue. Brand Assets now ships every colour and plate variant for download — ready for boards, social, and campaigns.
New
Org Chart for the union board
Print a who-to-contact poster, save officers and stewards as JSON or CSV after elections, and reuse those names on Website Template.
Improved
College Support is one collection
College Support locals now start with one collection in Brand Kit. Full-time and part-time members share the same local. Membership still has Full-Time and Part-Time join links.
New
Reopen a downloaded local site
Website Template can import the site file from a ZIP you already downloaded, so you can update officers or copy and download a fresh ZIP.
Improved
Quote Card layouts and social formats
Quote Card now has stripe, centered, and large-mark layouts, plus square, Facebook landscape, and 9:16. Starter chips load a bargaining, solidarity, or member quote.
Improved
Local Portal names in solidarity
Together is home. Hold the line shows which Circles are live. One fight tracks stuck versus moving work, and Many hands is the shared card wall. Committee Circles can open those tools even when they start empty.
Improved
Comms stay free
The solidarity page now says it plainly: public tools stay free on your device. If we host Officer Hub or Local Portal, hosting has a cost. You can still run the software yourself.
Guide
Photo consent now names the union risk
The Photo Consent guide now covers three event settings and a take-it-down-now rule, so members who need to stay off camera stay protected.
Guide
Email guide rewritten as a how-to
The Email & Member Outreach Guide now covers when email is the official record, how to write a subject members will open, and how to protect addresses with BCC and personal inboxes.
Improved
OPSEU / SEFPO membership links follow your sector
College Support still gets Full-Time and Part-Time application links in Brand Kit. Other OPSEU / SEFPO sectors get one All members link to the OPSEU / SEFPO membership form.
New
Graphic Maker portrait for Reels
Graphic Maker can export a tall 9:16 still for Reels, Shorts, and Stories, next to landscape and square. The short-form guide explains when a still is enough.
Guide
Short-form video guide
A new handbook for filming on a phone, keeping member privacy, and pointing Reels or Shorts at a meeting, petition, or your local site.
New
WordPress theme from Website Template
Website Template can download a classic WordPress theme of the same local page. WordPress hosting is still unsupported. GitHub Pages remains the usual path.
Improved
Website Template header art
The exported local site can use a colour field, three greyscale patterns, or a photo you upload with consent. No member photos ship in the template.
Guide
Print guide rewritten as a how-to
The Print Communications Guide now covers why print still reaches members social media misses, a three-second glance test for flyers, and printing on a local budget.
Guide
Workshop hour that matches the tools
The workshop outline is a timed lunch-and-learn: strategy, a local logo, Social Examples, Graphic Maker, Quote Card, then a website download. A 20-minute Demo Path walks the same stops.
Improved
Brand Kit collection profiles
Brand Kit can hold more than one collection when a local covers more than one workplace, with starter names from published union structures.
New
Site feedback form
Send an idea, a bug, an accessibility barrier, or a workshop note without opening GitHub. Optional email is for a reply only, never a mailing list.
Improved
Brand Kit fonts for makers
Brand Kit now lets you pick headline and body fonts. Graphic Maker, Flyer Maker, and the other makers use those faces on what you download.
Improved
Flyer Maker layouts and paper sizes
Flyer Maker gained stack, colour-band, split, and photo-hero layouts, plus letter, half-letter, and tabloid paper. Optional QR and a photo with consent can sit on the same flyer.
New
Local Portal for members
Signed-in members land on Together: Circles, a week digest, and bulletin items, without an empty Officer Hub dashboard.
Improved
A shared look across boards and graphics
Board notices, flyers, and social graphics now share Brand Kit spacing, lettering, and QR codes, so a set of materials looks like one local.
July 2026
New
Brand Assets for every union
Brand Assets now shows colours and starter files from your Brand Kit union, not only the reference college pack.
New
Seniority worksheet download
Document Generator can download a seniority worksheet for stability committees. It is a paper aid, not a bumping calculator.
New
Right-to-refuse pocket card
QR Link Cards gained a right-to-refuse reference card you can print for stewards. Ontario OHSA only, and not legal advice.
Guide
Email and member outreach guide
Copy-only meeting invites and officer reminders. UnionOps keeps no marketing lists and sends no mail for you.
Improved
Print step on First week
The First week roadmap now includes print after union boards and before social posts, so a flyer is part of the same message as the board and the graphic.
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