The Bechers are cult figures, known in the photography world for their "typologies" of water towers, gas tanks, workers' houses, winding towers, and blast furnaces, among other forms of the industrial vernacular.
He first appeared in the season two episode "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" when Homer discovered he had a half-brother, the product of a short-lived affair between his father Abe and a carnival dunk-tank worker who was also a prostitute.
On a catwalk above the tank, two workers with hooked poles spent 20 minutes coaxing Veronica to swim into a large plastic tube on the bottom.
One of his first high-level appointments was to a tank factory worker who had publicly offered to fly to Moscow with his co-workers and drive the demonstrators from the streets.
Newer companies, especially in areas such as e-commerce, security firms and fitness studios, are "almost entirely without collective representation", says Martin Behrens at the Hans Böckler Stiftung, a union-linked think-tank.Workers at any German company with five or more employees can demand the creation of a works council.
Even the impassioned defense several weeks ago by Mr. Kholmanskikh, the tank factory worker, was delivered on Mr. Putin's annual call-in show, a heavily stage-managed event devoted mostly to burnishing his image.
In Britain, the Scottish National Party wants to hike the minimum to £8.70; the Living Wage Foundation, a think-tank, reckons workers outside London need £7.85 an hour and those in London £9.15 41% above the current minimum.In general, setting floors and caps to prices is risky.
At one firm, the storage tank which supplied workers with water for handwashing tested positive for the cyclospora parasite that causes the illness.
The other day I was feeling unusually melancholy, what with the economy in the tank and construction workers building evil McMansions next to my house.
In 2001, according to the Economic Policy Institute*, a liberal think tank in Washington, workers with undergraduate degrees (but not graduate degrees) earned, on average, $30.05 an hour; last year, they earned $29.55 an hour.
