41.   Hourly workers have had their workweek cut back, and salaried workers were given the option of scaling back their hours.

42.   Hourly workers at the four plants will receive their normal pay without interruption during the shutdowns, with some of them staying on to perform maintenance, Akre said.

43.   Hourly workers assumed it meant they had been exposed to a certain level of radiation, but management never explained what it meant.

44.   Hourly workers at a Delphi Automotive Systems brake plant are to vote Tuesday on whether to ratify a proposed four-year contract.

45.   NLRB attorney Rick Czubaj said the United Auto Workers had won an election to back hourly workers at the plant.

46.   Once new contracts for the hourly workers are agreed on, final negotiations will begin for the other two contracts covering technical and clerical employees and nurses.

47.   That decision raised concerns that employers would be disinclined to offer stock options to hourly workers if that would significantly drive up the costs of overtime.

48.   The details of the package for hourly workers will have to be negotiated with the Machinists union.

49.   The head of the largest union group at Walt Disney World recommended Wednesday that hourly workers reject a contract proposal offered by the company.

50.   The hourly workers were to bid on jobs based on seniority.