1.   Social Security and federal labor laws being early examples.

2.   Also, under federal labor law, only workers classified as employees have a right to form unions and bargain collectively.

3.   An agreement between the federal labor and immigration agencies requires labor inspectors to report immigration law violations to the INS, which workers fear could lead to their arrest.

4.   Another change, requiring Congress to abide by federal labor laws, passed the House last year, when it was still controlled by Democrats.

5.   Before passage of RFRA, the courts had ruled that religious hospitals were clearly covered by federal labor laws.

6.   Benedict Wolf, a New York lawyer and veteran mediator who served on the original federal labor board, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan.

7.   Because it is solely a city union, the PBA is not bound by federal labor rules, he said.

8.   -- Agreed to decide whether truck drivers who haul live chickens should be considered agricultural workers exempt from federal labor law provisions.

9.   A formal complaint accusing owners of violating federal labor laws is scheduled for release today.

10.   A similar effort occurred two decades ago, when workers in nonprofit hospitals lobbied successfully to change a federal labor law that had prevented them from forming a union.