If your main issue you want to bring up is getting wage levels and salaries
set at reasonable levels and some form of support for such schemes, and you
are basically told CILIP doesn't do this, go to a trade union then what
further steps can you actually take? Within CILIP that is?
If you were to approach a councilor to discuss this then surely they'd just
tell you the same thing. It's just a dead end.
Obviously for a lot of people this wouldn't be the only issue but I'm
guessing it's a rather major one and if they cannot get an answer (as it's
not under CILIP's purview) then what is the next step then? For the reasons
already mentioned it's been said CILIP couldn't become anything like a
trade union. Fair enough but having one section of concern having to be
left alone can make people wonder what they are (up front) getting from
being a member. This is especially true if you're not partaking of
chartership or the courses. In any organisation you get some people who use
everything and others who use nothing (through choice or otherwise). But
it's a matter of giving the later groups reason to stay that can be a
problem. And it sounds like, to be fair, the financial side of life is at
the forefront of most peoples minds.
Kevin
Kevin Symonds
Librarian
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
15 Chaucer Road
Cambridge
CB2 2EF
Tel: 01223 355294 ext 110
Fax: 01223 359062
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