Re: negotiate wages
Bruce Gapinski wrote:
How do you negotiate your wages? Do you belong to
a union? If so is there
web access to the Histology wages?
This appears to be the only "legal" way for us to negotiate with our
employer. If I were to call you, and ask you what you
make (as I'd done
before for years) I could be fired for collusion. Don't
bother, I've checked
it out. Called Washington DC and talked to the
Anti-trust people, it's
legal.
Rubbish!! Name the law, the exact statute please, that
is violated. What case law supports this opinion? I think you talked to
the wrong people in DC.
What you are saying is that no one in the country
can ask anyone else in the same profession what they are paid and use that
information to negotiate a higher salary. Since such a law could not be
applied to one profession, it must apply to all. Or maybe there is a specific
law that targets HTs and HTLs? The "Parade" magazine that comes with my
Sunday paper has a salary survey of sorts each year, "what people make".
So if I read that and use that information to negotiate higher pay,
the person quoted and the author and the editor and the publisher and I
are all guilty of collusion?
Of course, your employer is constantly (24 hours/day)
monitoring your conversations with others in the profession to be sure
that no "collusion" occurs. You meet a colleague from the lab across town
at a local workshop. She tells you she got a raise but she can't tell you
to what or how much because it is or might become collusion??
Could we have some common sense here? Collusion
is often illegal but asking someone how much they make is NOT collusion.
Geoff
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