Teachers have unionized, and now they strike, because they didn't like poverty. Nurses are unionizing because they don't like poverty, and there are fewer people going into nursing than ever before, so this country is about to face a truly critical nursing shortage. Day care centers have a terrific turnover problem and can't hold on to qualified people. Do you care to speculate about the average age of people in my profession? It's hovering around 45. One of the directors in my system is talking about unionizing librarians, because we're tired of poverty.

These are all professions dominated by women. I am a member of the last generation of women who does a job not only for the money, but because we were socialized to believe that people are more important than that. Choosing the job and accepting the salary is not in the cards for the next generation of women. Many of them are not choosing the job. The rest will not accept the salary.

Be careful what you suggest. You will be living with the results in a few years.

Regards--
Mary Anne