1.   It looks like employers, who once depended on temps to fill in for vacationing or sick employees, are hooked on the transient workers.

2.   Many of the jobs at meat processing plants are filled by transient workers.

3.   Theoretically, the free-floating market of World Series tickets could have turned off one prospective transient worker from signing on with the Mets.

4.   One method of tackling unemployment will be to limit the number of transient workers in Beijing, the China Daily reported Thursday.