Unionizing?

["Evan Martin" <evan -dot- martin -at- garvin-allen -dot- com>]

Someone wrote:

"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.


EVan



^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Order RoboHelp X3 in December and receive $100 mail in rebate, FREE WebHelp
Merge Module and the new RoboPDF - add powerful PDF output functionality
to RoboHelp X3. Order online today at http://www.ehelp.com/techwr-l

Check out SnagIt - The Screen Capture Standard!
Download a free 30-day trial from http://www.techsmith.com/rdr/txt/twr
Find out what all the other tech writers, including Dan, already know!

---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as:
archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot-  Visit
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.