28th February 2007, 07:32 PM
I don't want anyone to think that I disagree with any of the comments made so far on this thread (I don't). I also believe that this campaign could be make or break as far as archaeological wages go and would therefore encourage everyone to support it, through either BAJR, Prospect or the IFA/Diggers Forum.
My one criticism is with whoevers idea it was to talk of a 'living wage'? Surely we already get a 'living wage', it's not a good wage, but nobody could argue that in the majority of cases it is insufficient to 'live' on.
What we really want is not a living wage, but a stonking good wage that reflects both our physical and intellectual input into this profession and enables us to feel that we achieve a degree of dignity as a result of our labours. So any chance we could rename it 'The Campaign for a Stonking Good Wage for Archaeologists' (or any similar word that ends in -ing and means roughly the same thing).
My one criticism is with whoevers idea it was to talk of a 'living wage'? Surely we already get a 'living wage', it's not a good wage, but nobody could argue that in the majority of cases it is insufficient to 'live' on.
What we really want is not a living wage, but a stonking good wage that reflects both our physical and intellectual input into this profession and enables us to feel that we achieve a degree of dignity as a result of our labours. So any chance we could rename it 'The Campaign for a Stonking Good Wage for Archaeologists' (or any similar word that ends in -ing and means roughly the same thing).