there are 7 pages of the bryan dolby thread, i suggest he would be the man to ask... i am supprised none took the chance during that thread
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The FWC exist for professional window cleaners only, it’s one way you can have independent representation that easily distinguish you.
and what pray is a Professuional Window Cleaner?
You’re not required by law to have to have public liability insurance or personal accident, so why bother with them, if you have them? (Don’t say because a few of my commercial customers want me to have them, that’s just rubbish) Same goes for any H&S training or certificates you’re not required to have them, do you have them? Same goes for any associations, are you a member of any?
Point is you can do away with them all, so why don’t you? You probably only need vehicle insurance and to declare your money.
It’s not for me or you to decide what being professional or professionalism is, it something that exists outside of any individual’s ego, although there are exceptions that raise the level of standards.
I have all of the above, I am a member of the Guild of Window Cleaners, and I am not a member of the Fed.
I am not a member of the “fed” because I do not see what the “fed” can offer that is different to the “guild”.
None of my customers has ever heard of the “Guild” which is not surprising since its only been around for a couple of years, but they also have never heard about the “fed” either.
For any trade body to work, its benefits to its members have to be worthwhile, if you look at The Market Traders Federation,
http://www.nmtf.co.uk/index.php?id_cpg=6 you will see that the benefits it offers its members far out stretch what anyone is offering Window Cleaners.
The “fed” do offer discounts on Supplies and Insurance, but if you look around, you will be able to obtain both of these cheaper than the “fed” offer.
It has been said that the “fed” only support and stand for window cleaners that are its members and if you are not a member, you are accused of being un-professional, if that’s the case, are the top 20 window cleaning companies in the UK who have incomes in the millions, who are not members of the “fed” un-professional?.
Any window cleaning trade body has to represent all window cleaners, both members and non-members, if they don’t, then they are not a trade body, instead they are a window cleaning club.
At the moment the “fed” membership is only in is few thousand, yet there are thousands and thousands of window cleaners, so is it fair to say that the “fed” represent all window cleaners?, I think not.
Over the last few years the “fed” has improved but there are still those in it, who look down on us non-members, and I feel that they are still years behind, what the window cleaning trade needs.
Can the “fed” or another group come forward to represent and offer what most window cleaners want is still un-clear, but hopefully it will happen, unto that day, my money will be staying in the bank un-less they can convince me otherwise.
And while I am not a member of the “fed” I am still a Professional Window Cleaner.
