21.   McEntee said the workfare participants would pay reduced dues, but would otherwise be union members like anyone else.

22.   Most states would solve the problem by paying workfare participants less than the minimum wage.

23.   Ms. Carden and other lawyers said the ruling was an important first step in providing workfare participants with the basic tools of employment.

24.   Ms. Price, who has been a workfare participant for three years, carries a clipboard as she keeps tabs on her subordinates.

25.   Nonetheless, union leaders complain that workfare participants are filling union slots, whatever the language.

26.   One way the city and the state can reduce the number of required workfare participants is by reducing the overall number of people on welfare.

27.   Seeking an established union to work with, Acorn has talked with Hill about joining forces to organize workfare participants, but so far there is no agreement.

28.   Several other groups have started similar efforts to organize workfare participants, intent on prodding government agencies into enforcing rules that govern workplace health and safety.

29.   Shaw also said that Republicans never intended for the minimum wage to apply to workfare participants.

30.   She also accused the Giuliani administration of dissembling when it insists that workfare participants are receiving training for permanent private sector jobs.