14th December 2009, 11:12 AM
Dear daydreamers
I am a self employed archaeologist. It has always been a bit of a jaw dropper for me that anybody could imagine that there was some secure unionised work place in archaeology. I compete for work on price, a price set by the market which you presumably are all in and affect.
Its seems to me that to achieve a secure unionised work place you would require either a monopoly (public or private) or such a commercial advantage that you would be the automatic first choice (legislation). We kinda have got these with eh and charity trusts. They kinda have got some unions in them and have done so for a long time. Why I think they don’t work is that management grade starts at one step off the bottom rung and the bottom rung is digging. But digging is not continuous. It is an unreliable food source and it kinda needs to be mapped if anybody intends to rely on it for sustenance. As a start I thought that this might help you
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/c...2180-4c7e-
I am a self employed archaeologist. It has always been a bit of a jaw dropper for me that anybody could imagine that there was some secure unionised work place in archaeology. I compete for work on price, a price set by the market which you presumably are all in and affect.
Its seems to me that to achieve a secure unionised work place you would require either a monopoly (public or private) or such a commercial advantage that you would be the automatic first choice (legislation). We kinda have got these with eh and charity trusts. They kinda have got some unions in them and have done so for a long time. Why I think they don’t work is that management grade starts at one step off the bottom rung and the bottom rung is digging. But digging is not continuous. It is an unreliable food source and it kinda needs to be mapped if anybody intends to rely on it for sustenance. As a start I thought that this might help you
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/c...2180-4c7e-
Reason: your past is my past