Hi,
    With the recent screw ups in Fed offices perhaps they will send the INS
and deport you to someplace warm & sunny with nice beaches :-)
Dare to dream
Amos

----- Original Message -----
From: "David A. Reynolds" 
To: "Keith, Cindy" 
Cc: "'HistoNet@Pathology.swmed.edu'" 
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 3:59 PM
Subject: RE: negotiate wages


> $21.72.
>
> Yikes, here comes the FBI!
>
> Dave Reynolds (oops, I mean Smith)HT
> Seattle, WA
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Keith, Cindy wrote:
>
> >  So why don't we do a survey here on the histonet?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Geoff McAuliffe
> > To: Bruce Gapinski
> > Cc: 'HistoNet@Pathology.swmed.edu'
> > Sent: 6/19/02 5:04 PM
> > Subject: 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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