Prospect Young Professionals Network
Welcome to the home page for Prospect's young professionals network.
If you're logged into the Prospect website and can see a link on the left to the network's 'member pages', then you've already signed up to the network and have got access to the full range of content, including our discussion forum.
If you're already a Prospect member but all you can see when you log in is the Young Professionals public page, you're not yet a member of the network. Please email us and let us know that you'd like to be part of the group, quoting your membership number if possible. All Prospect members under the age of 30 can join the network. It provides a focal point for issues which are particularly relevant to young union members. It is still in its infancy, but the groundwork has been laid for it to be a vibrant and important part of Prospect nationally.
If you're not a Prospect member but you're working as a scientist, engineer or one of a range of other specialisms, find out more about what Prospect can do for you.
Young professionals convention, 30 September
Our second young professionals convention was held on Wednesday 30 September in London.
It built on our 2008 convention which looked at issues including:
- international development
- social attitudes and social change
- skills
- the role of younger members within the trade union movement.
Workers Beer Company
The Young Professionals network co-ordinates Prospect's volunteers for various Workers Beer Company events. Founded by the Battersea and Wandsworth TUC, WBC provides bar facilities at large outdoor events, usually music festivals such as Glastonbury.
Unions and solidarity groups send volunteers to work in the WBC bars and beer tents. The volunteers don't get paid, but they get free entry to the festival, a couple of drinks when their shift is over, and when they are not working they can enjoy the music and atmosphere of the festival. Where the event runs over a number of days the Company provides a secure campsite with toilets, showers and a subsidised canteen and bar.
The Company donates £6.50 to Prospect for every hour that their volunteers contribute. It's a fun way for activists to make money for our work.
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