Ms. Pope, the Teamsters' president, said on Wednesday that the suspensions seemed to be an effort to thwart the union and that the company's lawyers might have invited Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to scrutinize workers to weaken the union drive.
Labels aren't enough, and the IRS, state tax authorities, labor departments, and insurance companies scrutinize workers' status.
The first place Shapiro and his crew go, soon after the team arrives at a factory, is to the roof, to inspect ventilation and other systems; meanwhile, his colleagues inside are interviewing workers, examining payroll records and checking reports on air and water samples and on noise and temperature levels, scrutinizing workers' thumb guards and steel-tipped shoes — everything.
Those concerns were the focus of a Senate subcommittee hearing on Thursday, as senators grilled representatives of the U.S. government's personnel office over how closely contractors scrutinize prospective workers for high-security jobs.
Closed questions, with answers scored by a five- or six-point Likert scale, scrutinized healthcare workers' knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding sexual violence.
In "The Powerhouse," published in 1944 by Routledge, he wrote, "The weak do a great deal -- every woman who hides a deserter, every clerk who doesn't scrutinize a pass, every worker who bungles a fuse saves somebody's life for a while".
At the McDonald's Corporation in Oak Brook, Ill., the oldest workers, those 65to6969, scrutinized their paychecks as the end of each year approached.
Having swiped menus, scrutinized dining patterns and interrogated workers in Wethersfield and other locations while writing the book, Mr. O'Nan, 46, became steeped in Red Lobster trivia.
But the dimpled ballots were set aside for a judge to determine whether they should be scrutinized to see if election workers can determine the voters' intent, Mr. Newman added.
At issue is whether Texaco's agreement in 1997 to let the agency scrutinize its practices applies to hourly workers.
Election workers planned to continue scrutinizing the lever voting machines on Saturday.
