11.   Hourly workers, covered under the union contract, would be gone by the end of September.

12.   His hourly workers, frightened by talk of a plant closing, joined the United Auto Workers and staged a walkout over contract terms.

13.   Hourly workers are the only employees eligible to submit ideas.

14.   In return, Ford is ready to agree to keep a minimum number of hourly workers during the life of the contract.

15.   Instead, at all levels, from hourly workers to professional staff, they were consistently choosing work over home.

16.   Kline said hourly workers will receive most of their weekly pay through a combination of unemployment benefits and a fund that pays furloughed workers.

17.   Lockheed managers, salaried workers and subcontractors performed assembly line jobs during the walkout, but it was unclear how much progress they made without regular hourly workers.

18.   Meanwhile, hourly workers at Ford plants around the country are completing their voting on a new contract negotiated earlier this month.

19.   Sen. John Ashcroft, R-Mo., said the Family Friendly Workplace Act would help hourly workers better balance the competing demands and tensions of work and home.

20.   Some areas will suspend operations immediately, BHP said, and hourly workers will be placed on paid leave until the plans are complete.