31.   In its decision, the Supreme Court said there may be circumstances where paid union organizers are not entitled to all of the federal labor law protections.

32.   Last June, the court ruled, by the same margin, that employees cannot sue states for violating the federal labor law governing minimum wages and hours.

33.   Nader has made federal labor law and corporate influence on public policy centerpieces of his campaign.

34.   Now, the decision of a federal labor regulator has brought it all back.

35.   On each matter, Health Midwest has denied it violated federal labor laws.

36.   Other types of workers also are at the margin of federal labor law.

37.   President Clinton has said people on welfare are generally entitled to the minimum wage and other protections of federal labor laws.

38.   Rural factories still employ fewer than half of all manufacturing workers in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, federal labor statistics show.

39.   Some courts have applied the six-month time limit that applies under another federal labor law, the National Labor Relations Act.

40.   Such an activity would be illegal under federal labor law.