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[quote=Anonymous][quote=nannydebsays]I'm a member of INA as well. I've gone to one conference, and would have gone this year if I wasn't busy working and planning NNTD for my area.

I believe that one of the reasons nannies aren't the only ones "allowed" to have a say in how the INA is run is the basic reason that most nannies work 50+ hours a week, and flat out don't have the time to devote to also working a second FT+ job running an international association.

Additionally, agency owners, payroll company owners, etc. have more actual *business experience* than many nannies. And the INA is a business. The effort expended to produce a yearly conference is huge, and it needs people with the experience and connections nanny related business owners have to make it all come together!

I can't really understand the venom directed at agency owners - agencies do actually help nannies find jobs. Good agencies (and I bet the agency owners who help run INA are also members of APNA!) can make a difference in whether a job is decent or crummy, so why shouldn't they have a say in how INA operates?

Without nannies, agencies will collapse. Without agencies, many nannies would not be able to find decent jobs. It's all interconnected, don't you think?[/quote]

I disagree. Agencies make their money on the backs of nannies and generally serve the interests of the parents(paying customers) long before the nannies they supposedly represent. Without nannies agencies would fail to exist. On the other hand, a nanny with a decent head on her shoulders can tell the difference between a decent job and a crappy job and can negotiate the contract she wants. I've never gone through an agency, and I have exactly the contract that I wanted seeing as how I drafted it. As for business experience, many of us are educated and some of business owners ourselves, and I would say what we do on a daily basis is business experience. [/quote]

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