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Everyone should read the ADHI article on the - No Way

Posted: Mar 04, 2011

Advance for HIM website regarding credntialing for all MTs.

Definitely a ploy to fatten their bank account. - DNR

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My CMT never benefited me.

CMTs have not been helpful because they have never been mandatory - but it would protect us like a union

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I think it might be very helpful to our success if CMTs actually were required. It works for many other fields, even though I'll have to admit that none of them are doing great in this economy either. I would say that it at least WOULD have helped back when there was a healthy economy and jobs in all sectors of the economy. We WOULD have done better if it had happened back then and we would be in a better position now. It would have had the same advantage of a union, the good kind of union that protects members from abuse without being excessive.

disagree totally. NM - not "buying" into it.

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no way! - tired

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CMT is waste of time, best it EVERY paid was 50 cents to $1 more, and seeing as MT wages are in the sewer and QA rates are below poverty..WHO CARES about CMT, quit that race years ago as it does nothing! They just want typists to mass produce then QA to slave to make reports ready to print for 2 cents a line....oh yah, please add more credentials so we can lose even more money every year!

Wishful thinking on their part - NJA Queen

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Why in the world would anyone go through all the hoops of PAYING for the CMT, taking the test, keeping up certification only to make minimum wage or slightly above? They know the US MT ship is sinking with every Indian MT that is hired and it is a desperate act on their part to think that their certification means any more than the paper it is written on. No thanks!

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