Yes, I thought Cilip was meant to be on our side. I'm sure that most employers are perfectly capable of looking after their own interests and of fighting their own battles - without any help from our professional organisation.
Despite the Thatcher years, I had fondly imagined that the days of hat-doffing and forelock tugging in the general direction of our employers was long gone and that we had entered an era in which there was a mutual recognition between employer and employee that they existed in an equal relationship, i.e., the acceptance that they need us as much as we need them? It appears I was mistaken!
Geraint Jones,
Islay, Scotland.
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Point taken inasmuch as we have to work in a certain prevailing climate
(one which is unremittingly hostile to us greedy public servants, for
instance). I do think the balance CILIP has to strike is weighted far
too heavily on the defeatist let's-all-conform-out-of-sheer-terror side,
though. Geraint was on the money about those enticing CILIP courses too
(I'm surprised nobody's told him to set up a Highlands Branch of CILIP
yet).
Off for the weekend now...
Mike Morris, Librarian, ISCA
51 Banbury Rd., Oxford OX2 6PE 01865 274671
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