atw: Re: Accreditation...but long before that?

Hallett, Michelle wrote:


Rules and payrates, we can leave these to be decided by employers and
agencies or we can attempt to influence them by deciding what rules and
payrates we individually would like and attempting to stick to them. For
example, I understand most people are asking for $65-70 an hour. If we
all refuse to accept anything lower than $60, then employers and
agencies will have to pay that or accept someone with lesser skills. If
there are lots of jobs, prospective employees are less desperate and
more likely to hold out for better pay and prospective employers become
more desperate. Now we currently have a situation of low unemployment,
so we can use it to help influence the rules. When unemployment rises,
with any luck we will stabilise at a higher payrate and employers will
be budgeting for this higher rate. Marketing students know this as
supply and demand plus there's an inertia to the market which is
actually predicted by chaos theory (strange attractors).



Sorry to rain on your parade but this seems incredibly
naive to me despite the economic jargon. Writers do
not tend to be herd animals :-> so the odds of them
banding together to even agree on a minimum wage let
alone not taking jobs unless such a wage is guaranteed
are minimal at best. And on the other side, employers
who solely hire contractors do not all care so much
about quality that they wouldn't be willing to hire
someone cheaper with less experience. I think that
individual people secure in their skills and experience
can insist on a certain wage but as a pack I don't think
it's likely.

-- Janice






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