20th August 2011, 11:40 AM
If everyone ended up joining, what would be the point of getting chartered status in the first place since nothing would have changed apart from those that run IFA being able to afford bigger salaries? The profession overall would still contain the same mix of good and bad, but IFA would just have even more disaffected members who never wanted to join in the first place but were forced to (I'd be one of those), plus of course all the currently-non-members would be poorer to the tune of their membership fees, which would, inevitably, rocket as is always the case with enforced/involuntary memberships....and still not clear how all this would improve wages for those at the end of a shovel since any significant increase in costs to the clients would just make the construction industry more beligerently anti-archaeology :face-thinks:
chartered status is, after all, just a legalised form of closed-shop
chartered status is, after all, just a legalised form of closed-shop