2nd June 2010, 08:15 AM
Quote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/9107177
The Prime Minister's vision of a "big society" should include the UK's seven million trade union members, an official will urge.
Paul Noon, general secretary of Prospect, will say the Government needs to listen to "the voice of the professional", democratically expressed at the workplace through trade unions.
In his keynote address to the union's biennial national conference in Liverpool, Mr Noon will also call on employers to heed the views of engineers, scientists, managers and other professionals on how their organisations should be run more effectively.
"Trade unions have been doing the big society for 200 years," he will say.