22nd October 2008, 04:13 PM
Point 6. I hate to say it, but professions with chartered status still start at a low point. Land/building survey companies routinely take on people and pay them G1 wages. Likewise for pupillages in law. Its around the middle/top end that the difference is most acute; i.e. where the actual chartering is.
That is where we have an upper hand (sort of). Land/building surveyors and lawyers have been paying like that for years. It is the way things are (and a status quo they'd like probably to maintain). Perhaps (and this is pie-in-the-sky)... with a new, improved and fluffy IfA we set the standard wage (the right pay) right at the beginning. I can only hope.
Point 10. This is already a legal right.
Yes, it is (and rightly so). But past experience has taught me that some units / employers frown upon union membership. This is particularly true of my past experiences with some contracting units. In some places, there was even a climate of "there's militants in our offices (reds under the bed)" and that the process of becoming a union member was done very hush-hush. Maybe I'm an old throw back to Maggies 80's... but in the past, I've been wary of applying for jobs and mentioning membership of a union. To be honest, it is now probably nothing more than paranoical figment of my fevered imagination... but it has its roots the actual world. In my perfect world (which doesn't exist) I should feel free to join, without any stigma attached.
That is where we have an upper hand (sort of). Land/building surveyors and lawyers have been paying like that for years. It is the way things are (and a status quo they'd like probably to maintain). Perhaps (and this is pie-in-the-sky)... with a new, improved and fluffy IfA we set the standard wage (the right pay) right at the beginning. I can only hope.
Point 10. This is already a legal right.
Yes, it is (and rightly so). But past experience has taught me that some units / employers frown upon union membership. This is particularly true of my past experiences with some contracting units. In some places, there was even a climate of "there's militants in our offices (reds under the bed)" and that the process of becoming a union member was done very hush-hush. Maybe I'm an old throw back to Maggies 80's... but in the past, I've been wary of applying for jobs and mentioning membership of a union. To be honest, it is now probably nothing more than paranoical figment of my fevered imagination... but it has its roots the actual world. In my perfect world (which doesn't exist) I should feel free to join, without any stigma attached.