Welcome
Welcome to our website of the Community and Youth Workers in Unite! Formerly the Community and Youth Workers’ Union (CYWU) and now part of Unite the union, the biggest trade union in Europe. As part of the Community, Youth Workers and Not for Profit Sector, our members are either working or training to work with children, young people and communities in statutory or voluntary settings. This website is still under development in many of the new sections and areas and work will continue on a daily basis to update these areas as quickly as possible. This website offers access to information for both members and non members and if there is anything you would like to see here please contact us.
CYWU News Bulletins
JNC 2009 Pay
The Staff Side have notified the Employers Side that they will accept the 1% increase on all grades and allowances offered in the 2009 settlement. Full details of the letter sent to the Employers Side can be found here. JESC 172, giving full details is available here and the revised pay scales are available here.
Book Review
Young people are locked up in great numbers for ‘crimes’ committed as a result of being locked out of meaningful social engagement and the wealth of society. This powerful book argues that society and educationalists should lock progressive policies for young people securely into the heart of social and economic policy. It argues, from a completely different national experience, for significant social investment in informal radical education, known in Britain as youth work and an end to the politics and economics of the mad market place... To read more please download here.
Unite the Union website
Visit the new Unite the Union website and see what Europe’s biggest union is doing to support it’s members. The new website has a dedicated section for the Community, Youth Workers and Not for Profit Industrial Sector and direct links to this website.
Does your post need regrading?
We can assist members to regrade their post under JNC terms and conditions if it is felt that the post has been graded incorrectly. Please complete the regrading form and return to National Office.
CYWU Section Office
Is located at Transport House, 211 Broad Street, Birmingham, B15 1AY,Tel: 0121 643 6221 Fax: 0121 633 0184
For contact details of your local branch please ring the CYWU Section Office. If you need to contact your local Unite Office the details can be obtained from the Unite website, www.unitetheunion.com or by clicking here
Other News and Information
New Union Promotional DVD
It’s got the wow factor ! It’s a great recruitment tool. It’s very informative about what the union offers. A great new DVD has been produced about the union and its relevance to youth, community, play and other related workers. This is the ideal tool that members have requesting for many years to assist with recruitment meetings. It should be shown at all Branch meetings and more importantly shared with non members and students to get them to join. You can preview the DVD here on the website and free copies can be ordered from CYWU Section Office.
News from Around the Branches
Oxfordshire Branch win stunning victory
Oxfordshire Branch of Unite/CYWU has got us all off to a good start to the year by defeating a very serious proposal by the Council to cut £2.3 million from the Youth Service budget. Determined Branch campaigning and a consequent public outcry forced the Council to back off. A proposed £350.000 cut remains and negotiations around this will continue...to read the full article please download here.
Coventry members sustain longest industrial action ever
Congratulations and solidarity are due to members of Coventry Branch within the Youth Service who now enter their eighth week of industrial action. Each week there has been action and simultaneously all workers throughout the city wear the red campaigning T shirt to express their solidarity.
Strike action will ensue on a selective basis in this long standing and determined campaign to save youth support workers contracts, hours, professional commitments to youth work and in service training...to read the full article please download here.
The very latest version of Rapport is now available for