10th October 2011, 09:33 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:Am still intensely concerned/alarmed that the IFA, which only represents a proportion of British archaeologists, thinks it has the right to pursue a policy which will significantly affect all archaeologists in this country, in the case of the non-members severely adversely - presumably their ultimate aim with Chartership is that non-members will be unable to work commercially in Britain?
I raised a closely related question to this at the AGM. My personal and long-stated view is that the IfA needs to become more representative and represent all members of the profession at all points in their careers, not just the MIfA-entry level (like I was).
BTW the IfA already pursues policies which significantly affect all archaeologists in the country, and its a good thing they do in my opinion. I'd like them to put another policy into action which is the implementation of the staged increases to meet the 'benchmarking increases' and raise minima to something respectable.