Prospect (trade union)

Prospect is a United Kingdom trade union which represents engineers, managers, scientists and other specialists in both the public and private sectors.

Prospect
Prospect
Founded1 November 2001
HeadquartersNew Prospect House, Leake Street, London
Location
Members
145,000
Key people
Mike Clancy (Gen Sec)
AffiliationsTUC, ICTU, STUC, PSI, ETF, ITF, IFATSEA, CSEU
Websitewww.prospect.org.uk

History

The union was formed on 1 November 2001 by the merger of the Institution of Professionals Managers and Specialists and the Engineers and Managers Association. In 2009, Prospect endorsed a transfer of engagements from the Connect union, the union for managers in the communications sector, which became a part of Prospect on 1 January 2010.[1]

Membership

Prospect members work in engineering, communications/utilities, the civil service, museums and galleries, in a range of public and private organisations including the Met Office,[2] Health and Safety Executive,[3] Trinity House,[4] Babcock[5] and BT Group.[6]

Skills

With a largely professional membership, the union has placed a strong emphasis on developing skills and opportunities for career progression. To this end it launched a standalone website called Careersmart in 2014 which provides information and podcasts on a range of subjects from career appraisals and CV writing to mentoring and pensions. Careersmart followed the 2013 launch of Prospect's Apprenticeship App for mobile devices which saw 12,000 downloads in the first year.[7] In 2015 Prospect launched a Gatsby Charitable Foundation-funded project, known as RegTech, to register workplace technicians.[8][9]

References
  1. Neela Bettridge and Philip Whiteley, New Normal, Radical Shift, p.51
  2. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/met-office-braced-for-strikes-as-pay-storm-gathers-qh0bth9wx
  3. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/27/tens-of-thousands-of-public-sector-workers-to-strike-on-15-march-over-pay
  4. Harwich and Manningtree Standard https://www.harwichandmanningtreestandard.co.uk/news/23387540.trinity-house-staff-go-strike-harwich-pay-dispute/
  5. Central Arbritration Committee https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cac-outcome-prospect-babcock-mission-critical-services-offshore
  6. Proactive Investor https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/999746/bt-union-respite-may-be-short-lived-warn-analysts-999746.html
  7. Prospect to launch new careers and skills website for professionals Prospect, 13 May 2014
  8. "Careersmart: RegTech - Raising the status of Technicians". Archived from the original on 2015-05-02. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  9. The benefits of mentoring in workplace and beyond Unionlearn, 25 March 2015
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