[CAUT] Position Announcement, SIU, Carbondale, IL

[Ron Poire]

Hi Ed and all, it's okay for music stores and any other piano shop which 
hires contract help for tuning, to decide how much they will pay for floor 
work, and in-home waranty service.
Here locally, since I'm just getting my business started, and have ten years 
of university experience behind me, I still must work for a really low rate.
If I don't, they will give the work to someone else, who is willing.
This includes another RPT who has over 20 years, and he is a better 
rebuilder than I.

Another guy, has done some work for the store, but he lucky to get three or 
four service calls anually because he won't lower his prices.


regards,

Ron Poire



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Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Position Announcement, SIU, Carbondale, IL


> Jeff writes:
>
> << But with these college jobs, we only have to look in the mirror.  We're
>
> accepting these salaries, and we've got to realize that as long as someone
>
> else is willing to work for peanuts across the country, that is what is
>
> affecting everyone else's salary.  It won't change until we see that that 
> is
>
> what the process is and stand up together to it, against it, whatever it
>
> takes. >>
>
>     Umm, there is no "we" involved here. There is a market for labor, and
> there is a supply, that is where the determination of pay is decided, 
> i.e.,
> there are very few people capable of being CEO's of international 
> corporations and
> those jobs pay what they must due to this scarcity.
>     Actually, to "stand up together to it, against it, whatever it takes" 
> is
> criminal activity.  When "we" band together, and suggest what everyone 
> should
> charge, or even that everybody should charge more, "we" are guilty of a
> federal crime, (price fixing, restraint of trade, and/or collusion).  Help
> yourself, but leave me out of it.
>   The market will determine the value, and if the field gets crowded, the
> pay will go down.  That is simple market economics.  To suggest we 
> organize any
> activity to force the employers to pay more is a crime.  I do suggest 
> caution.
>
>
>
>
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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