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On 5/20/2003 9:17:28 PM Buck wrote:
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On 5/20/2003 5
46 PM FWAAA wrote:
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On 5/20/2003 5:15:14 PM RV4 wrote:
The UNION is not to blame, it is the DICTATOR structure and the unwillingnes to allow the members to decide their own fate. This is because the majority would have chosen smaller airline with better pay and benefits and that would be less dues payers.
WE are not the TWU! James C. Little is the TWU! Just ask him.
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Earth to AMFA Dave:
I don''t think smaller airline plus higher paid workforce was one of the choices on the table.
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I am curious.......
Is there something wrong with being compensated equally with my peers in the same industry?
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buck,
Peer is a very broad word for mechanics, baseball players, or any other group.
I think it applies to your company but not to other companies because of the extremes in outside influences.
The biggest influence is how wealthy the company is giving out the salaries.
A lot of the peers also took wage cuts. If yours are worse it is because they could not do better.
You could consider yourself equal with all other mechanics if you worked out of one local. You would not work for just one airline, you would work for all of them.
Parity is another word which is tossed around a lot. It makes sense, but you never see it.
Peer
6 entries found.
From Webster''s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]
Peer Peer v. t.
To be, or to assume to be, equal. [R.]
From Webster''s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]
Peer Peer, n. [OE. per, OF. per, F. pair, fr. L. par equal.
Cf. {Apparel}, {Pair}, {Par}, n., {Umpire}.]
1. One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character,
etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.
In song he never had his peer. --Dryden.
Shall they consort only with their peers? --I.
Taylor.
2. A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.
He all his peers in beauty did surpass. --Spenser.
3. A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the
British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount,
baron; as, a peer of the realm.
A noble peer of mickle trust and power. --Milton.
{House of Peers}, {The Peers}, the British House of Lords.
See {Parliament}.
{Spiritual peers}, the bishops and archibishops, or lords
spiritual, who sit in the House of Lords.
From Webster''s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]
Peer Peer, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Peered}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Peering}.] [OF. parir, pareir equiv. to F. para[^i]tre to
appear, L. parere. Cf. {Appear}.]
1. To come in sight; to appear. [Poetic]
So honor peereth in the meanest habit. --Shak.
See how his gorget peers above his gown! --B.
Jonson.
2. [Perh. a different word; cf. OE. piren, LG. piren. Cf.
{Pry} to peep.] To look narrowly or curiously or intently;
to peep; as, the peering day. --Milton.
Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads.
--Shak.
As if through a dungeon grate he peered.
--Coleridge.
From Webster''s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]
Peer Peer v. t.
To make equal in rank. [R.] --Heylin.
From WordNet ® 1.7 [wn]
peer
n 1: a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
[syn: {equal}, {match}, {compeer}]
2: (British) a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or
baron) who is a member of the British peerage
v : look searchingly; "We peered into the back of the shop to
see whether a salesman was around"
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02) [foldoc]
peer
A unit of communications hardware or software that is on the
same {protocol layer} of a network as another. A common way
of viewing a communications link is as two {protocol stack}s,
which are actually connected only at the very lowest
(physical) layer, but can be regarded as being connected at
each higher layer by virtue of the services provided by the
lower layers. Peer-to-peer communication refers to these real
or virtual connections between corresponding systems in each
layer.
To give a simple example, when two people talk to each other,
the lowest layer is the physical layer which concerns the
sound pressure waves travelling from mouth to ear (so mouths
and ears are peers) the next layer might be the speech and
hearing centres in the people''s brains and the top layer their
cerebellums or minds. Although, barring telepathy, nothing
passes directly between the two minds, there is a peer-to-peer
communication between them.
