BAJR leaves the IFA

[1man1desk]

But Sparky, the IFA has set up a procedure specifically to prevent complainants from having to be named, for exactly the reason you give. That procedure has now been in place for quite a while, and has been used.

In relation to giving credentials to companies, the IFA exists to serve its individual members. The only reason it runs the RAO scheme is because the individual members voted for it at an AGM; the companies in the scheme have no vote. If the individual members voted to abolish RAOs or to reform the system, the companies couldn't do prevent it.

The reason the RAO system exists is to provide a route whereby archaeological organisations as well as individual members can be subject to disciplinary action. Surely that is a good thing - it gives them an incentive to comply with IFA standards.

For both individuals and companies, there has to be an advantage to being in the IFA - better job prospects being the main one for individuals and marketing being key for companies. Otherwise, they wouldn't join in the first place, and if they did they wouldn't care about disciplinary action.

1man1desk

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