21st March 2005, 02:37 PM
A REAL professional organisation needs to be a closed shop, and needs statutory powers. It needs an organisation (IFA, BAJR, Martians, etc,) to lobby government for some kind of licenced status. I think having two or more competing organisations would not be very productive in the long run. As long as companies require you to be an IFA member to get jobs, they're always going to have the upper hand.