RE: Unionizing?

Subject: RE: Unionizing?
From: LDurway -at- pav -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:39:28 -0600


Maybe they meant unionizing as in "neutralizing the charge of an ion, thus
making it no longer an ion."

Just kidding. I agree with you. If anything would make us into commodity
labor, it would be a union.

LD

> "Until writers unionize and demand collective bargaining,
> until they abandon
> the comforting delusion that they are white-collar
> professionals instead of
> the hired help they're treated as, we will be fighting one
> another for jobs
> and respect, and calling it "market forces" until all
> documentation is just
> XML output from code. "
>
> ------------------------
>
> Unionizing? Now I'm ignorant when it comes to unions, but it
> sounds like a
> good way to drive the paid technical writer right out of a
> lot of companies.
> I know I'd be gone if I became part of a union that forced my
> employer to
> increase my salary.
>
> We have enough problems convincing employers of our worth
> without adding the
> word "Union" to the perception.
>
>


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