Bargaining Power
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I’m fortunate to be leaving one job and going to another job this summer. After resigning from my current job, I still had 6 months on that job, and I have a three month gap between the two jobs, during which I will be paid by my soon-to-be former employer because of an agreement to spread my salary over the entire year rather than just the academic year. I am fortunate that I will not have a lapse in health benefits or in salary.
However, having been miserable at my current job, things could easily have not worked out so well. Had I wanted to quit but had no other poisition to go to, I could easily have gotten into a poisition of having to take a job with no benefits or had to rely on my husband’s benefits.
I want to unite with other professionals so we have the bargaining power to provide for our own health and retirement benefits without having to stay at jobs we’ve long since outgrown just for the fringe benefits.
Tags: bargaining_power, fringe_benefits, health_benefits, retirement_benefits