The company plans to dispatch teams of workers on motorcycles in 20 cities to give away T-shirts that read, "Do It Here.
TOKYO — When a magnitude 9 earthquake knocked out a chip-making factory at Renesas Electronics, Toyota Motor and other manufacturers dispatched hundreds of workers to help get the plant in northeastern Japan running again.
While Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani cowed many municipal labor leaders, Mr. Butler repeatedly dispatched hundreds of workers to the streets to denounce Mr. Giuliani and his plans to shrink the public hospital system.
Politicians and regular New Yorkers applauded the utility for dispatching legions of workers to restore power to the wounded financial district in time for the reopening of the New York Stock Exchange less than a week after the attacks.
Ever since the McCain campaign filed its nominating petitions earlier this month, the Republican party has dispatched a squad of workers to ferret out possible errors in his paperwork.
In Oregon, where consumers still cannot enroll at the state exchange website, officials dispatched an army of workers and community allies to help panicked consumers — some with serious medical conditions and under threat of cancellation — enroll using paper applications.
Mr. Snoad, who was in Haiti after the quake, said he was trying to put together a map of health clinics, to guide the dispatch of health care workers and suppliers, and he had 400 street addresses that might be health centers.
Not only that, they say, 10 counties in northern New Jersey have lost millions of dollars, partly because of the expense of dispatching workers from local fire departments, police stations and hospitals to help in the initial days of the rescue effort.
A12 Tallying Storm Relief Costs Most of the government's estimated $150 billion bill for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is going for disaster aid checks to victims and gargantuan contracts for debris removal and housing, but there is a vast quantity of smaller purchases, made by an army of workers dispatched to the storm region.
The union charges that employers aren't training enough operators and could fill the missing positions with their own employees, instead of workers from the union dispatch hall.
