31.   The union represents a broad range of hourly workers at Boeing, including production workers on all their airplanes, secretaries, maintenance people and nurses.

32.   The workers are comfortable with the fuzzy line between managers and hourly workers.

33.   Under the national agreement between GM and a union, transferring a model gives hourly workers the option to move with the product.

34.   Wells started out as an hourly worker and member of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union.

35.   When automakers provide a new benefit to their hourly workers, they usually offer it to salaried employees, too, as they are doing now.

36.   With customers clamoring for cars and trucks, the domestic auto makers have been pushing their hourly workers at a record pace, and the strain is unmistakable.

37.   With malls, hospitals and businesses that serve rural communities far beyond it, Roanoke is a sponge of job creation that soaks up hourly workers.

38.   Boeing Machinists went to work today with a freshly approved contract that union members say signals a new era of mutual respect between company management and hourly workers.

39.   Ford Motor Co. is expected to lay out several steps to stem losses, including cutting some benefits for white-collar employees and laying off hundreds of hourly workers.

40.   Ford Motor Co. plans cost-cutting measures including laying off several hundred hourly workers and cutting benefits for white-collar employees, a source within the company said Monday.