2nd October 2012, 06:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 2nd October 2012, 06:47 PM by kevin wooldridge.)
Jack Wrote:Is a shocking demonstration of everything that is wrong with the IfA. The council decided to destroy field archaeologists pay and conditions without asking their membership? .... Or am I being to cynical here?
Well I don't think you get much more cynical than me, but I can see a glimmer of sense here. There has always been an illogicality in the IFA 'setting' pay minima. It is not a trade union and it has no power of negotiation. I would personally prefer if the Institute kept out of these affairs other than stating as part of the Code that its members should respect the right of other to organise through trade unions etc.
Where does this leave IfA members? Well actually no worse off than before. As far as I am aware there is no major archaeological employer that doesn't recognise trade unions, there are members in all employing organisations. If they want to do something about terms and conditions and pay, now is the time to organise and negotiate. IF archaeologists believe their pay and terms and conditions are being destroyed by their employers, the answer is in their own hands. Stand up and Fightback and don't expect a committee mainly comprised of office managers to do it for you!!
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