The Community & Youth Workers' Union must expand its recruitment or face being swallowed up by the expanding and diversifying labour market in work with young people. That was the message facing delegates at the union's recent annual conference in Cumbria.
With just over 4,000 members, the union is one of the smallest in the TUC, and it has long valued its independence as a specialist union over teaming up as a section of a larger trade union. But the continued large-scale investment in work with young people means the union is being forced to reassess the ways it works and is organised to adapt to the new make-up of the workforce.
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