<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Wimblees@aol.com wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>  My comment was in regard to how the PTG as an organization should do <blockquote TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">promotion on behalf of its members. There is a clear problem among our members who are employed part-time in situations where the workload would actually call for full-time employment. And worse of course, there is also a problem of techs who are nominally employed full time but paid only part-time wages and expected to make up the difference in private business. This problem deserves PTG organizational attention, IMO.  </blockquote> This is where I have a problem with the workload formula the CAUT committee is promoting. It is assuming a certain number of pianos to be the workload of a full time technician. It started out at 60, but then revised the number from 40 up to 80, depending on the kind of institution. An administrator who might not be aware of how much work is involved in taking care of pianos in a school setting, might not realize the amount of time is required to do so. An administrator is going to look at a full time technician in the private sector, and see that person with a customer base of 500 - 2000. How can an administrator justify a full time technician with only 60 - 100 pianos, when a "full time technician" can take care of 2000 pianos?  </blockquote> It would seem to me that "taking care" of 60 - 100 pianos in a Music Conservatory situation and "taking care" of 2000 private home pianos are quite obviously two different ball parks, and it shouldnt be too difficult to clarify that much to anyone....grin... even an administrator. <blockquote TYPE=CITE>  This is why the formula I have devised uses hours per week as a basis. If the PTG can show, through the use of the formula, that taking care of 60 - 80 pianos, including the repairs, rebuilding, and administrative duties, is a 35 - 40 hour a week job, then perhaps the administrator will realize that the tech won't have time to supplement a part time salary to take care of those pianos.  </blockquote> Relative to educating an administrator as to what kind of workload is involved in taking care of X amount of instruments under a given useage load while maintaining some given level of quality,,,,  I cant see that equating it in form of hours per week, or pianos per year amount to much more then the difference between 6 and a half dozen. Whatever works best. Either way it should work out to about the same net result. Or what ?   <blockquote TYPE=CITE>  Wim</blockquote> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A>  </html>