take this job and shove it (was let's cut..)

Wimblees@aol.com Wimblees@aol.com
Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:02:54 EDT


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In a message dated 6/20/03 10:48:39 AM Central Daylight Time, 
jtanner@mozart.sc.edu writes:

> So, this is the point of what I've written.  Both to encourage interested
> techs to hold out for a base salary that won't require outside work to just
> pay basic costs of living, and to make the point that if the CAUT field is
> going to attract more qualified techs, the salary average needs to go up.
> And that's not going to happen until more CAUTs start asking for more
> rather than accepting a salary which qualifies for Medicaid in order to get
> lower health insurance costs.
> 
> 

Part of the problem also is the fact that for the most part, unlike other 
civil servants at a university, like groundskeepers, and even secretaries, there 
is just one piano tech. We can't band together to ask for higher pay. Even the 
faculty can get together and demand higher pay. I don't know how it is at 
other universities, but faculty in different colleges get different pay. The 
College of Arts & Sciences are on the low end, while the Law school faculty get 
the most. Their argument is that the school has to offer higher salaries to 
attract higher qualified lawyers to teach. Unfortunately, the same mentality 
doesn't seem to apply to other departments, much less the piano tech. 

Wim 


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