FEDERATION COCOON?
Due to contractual commitments taking my time I have not had opportunity to enjoy the forum over the last few weeks. I was interested today then to read through the progression of this thread during my absence.
Congratulations i say to Mike Boxall for his endeavours to accomodate the sensitivities of the NFMW&GC! Mike raised the question of whether the NFMW&GC have their own sector of the Forum!
In the November 2003 issue of one national cleaning trade mag, the Fed, as in previous issues, claim of themselves:
WORKING WITH AND FOR BRITAINS WINDOW CLEANERS.
In the NFMW&GC recruitment leaflet,
National Federation of Master Window & General Cleaners - How Will the N.F.M.W. & G.C. Benefit You?, it says on page 3, its aims include to, "Represent the Industry with Government and Municipal bodies". Page 6 says, "The Federation was formed in 1947 to establish an authoritative orgination (sic) specifically concerned with the Window Cleaning Industry and its subsidiary services..."
The purported purpose of the NFMW&GC is then clear. This body, by its own published word claims to represent the interests of all in the window cleaning industry, not just its membership. In my view for the NFMW&GC to accept Mikes suggestion would:
- Be a repudiation of that claim.
Make it next to impossible, in terms of the wider membership of this Forum, to carry out that function.
Andrew Walker - Edu-Clean UK
