24th March 2010, 09:46 PM
We will get there. Archaeology is such a young profession. But I will certainly be joining this Union also and in the next few days.
We (as archaeologists and related professions) will never be able to be in a position to strike on such a scale as other companies because our companies will never be so big as it would make a difference to decisions made by the the senior management of those companies. But if the overall management of the archaeology companies in this country know that most of its workforce are in a Union and know their rights and will be more than willing to move on, and argue that they desreve certain rights, then attitudes will change.
I apologise for having such a 'them and us' attitude but it is naive to think that other professions don't suffer from the things that we 'suffer' from. I say 'suffer' in quotation marks because none of us 'suffer' in our chosen field or job, we - at the end of the day - love our jobs - we are just trying to make it better.
My musings for the night - I will turn it over to you.....
We (as archaeologists and related professions) will never be able to be in a position to strike on such a scale as other companies because our companies will never be so big as it would make a difference to decisions made by the the senior management of those companies. But if the overall management of the archaeology companies in this country know that most of its workforce are in a Union and know their rights and will be more than willing to move on, and argue that they desreve certain rights, then attitudes will change.
I apologise for having such a 'them and us' attitude but it is naive to think that other professions don't suffer from the things that we 'suffer' from. I say 'suffer' in quotation marks because none of us 'suffer' in our chosen field or job, we - at the end of the day - love our jobs - we are just trying to make it better.
My musings for the night - I will turn it over to you.....