The Community and Youth Workers Union (CYWU) was a British trade union created in 1938 by ten female voluntary sector workers. It is now a section of the Transport and General Workers' Union. Today its members are mainly made up of youth workers, workers in youth theatre, community education, outdoor education, play workers and personal advisers/mentors.
It produces a regular magazine for members, Rapport.
It had not authorised any national strike action prior to 2004, although the CYWU is the majority union of the Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) for youth and community workers.
The CYWU voted to join the TGWU at its 2005 Conference. The merger was confirmed on 13 September 2006, following a vote amongst the unions membership (with 82% in favour on a 26% turnout) and approved by the Trades Union Certification Officer on January 8, 2007.
The General Secretary of CYWU is Doug Nicholls, who is also is secretary of Trade Unionists Against the EU Constitution (UK).
In 2009 the first full history of the union was published Building Rapport: a brief history of the Community and Youth Workers' Union, by Doug NIcholls. This is available from the CYWU section office of Unite the union.
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“Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values.”
—Michael Lewis (late 20th century)
““Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth time were seen
On the Echoing Green.””
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