At Shirebrook that could be about 300 lucky workers.
The rising compensation costs are driven in large part by costlier health care benefits, so those lucky workers who do have jobs do not exactly feel richer.
Even the lucky workers who have found jobs are not exactly thriving, as most of the re-employed in the center's survey have had to take pay cuts.
The lucky workers get reinstated years later after exhaustive court battles.
Henry Ford and Walt Disney both experienced similar shock and feelings of betrayal when their lucky workers actually wanted a union.
A few lucky workers in Gothenburg, Sweden, will scale back to a six-hour workday this summer as part of an unusual government experiment.
Every year, a few of the lucky workers will be in charge of spiffing up the company's famous hometown heroes, the five Klement's Racing Sausages that compete at every Milwaukee Brewers game under the watchful eye of Bernie Brewer, which is also Olympus's handiwork.
On Saturday, in the rain under a loading crane on a dock next to a Greek cruise ship, a group of Nigerians watched luckier workers make their way up a gangway.
Choosing this route, says Fahlund, may also make sense for a lucky young worker who has built up a fortune in a 401(k) and wants to kick back for awhile.
Despite losing its well, Repsol was lucky; no workers were injured or killed, and no oil was spilled.
