It would later be expanded to give priority to calls from 15,000 government workers in each city and then 50,000 workers in each city, officials said.
There are also sharp differences over how many workers in each state will be covered.
The survey, whose results were released last week, questioned 1,000 workers in each country.
Mackey divides workers in each store into eight teams in different departments, ranging from cashier to sushi maker.
So Steinway's half-dozen foremen and the experienced workers in each department show newcomers the fine points.
Mr. Clinton asked Congress to provide 200,000 visas for such workers in each of the next three years.
Before they can be counted, election workers in each county must authenticate the names, addresses and signatures on the ballots.
Mr. Toussaint said the vote showed members' confidence in his leadership, noting that a majority of workers in each of the union's 13 divisions approved the contract.
Their slogan was "One Big Union": solidarity across colour, craft and continent, embodied in a single organisation with "industrial departments" for workers in each branch of the economy.
She said the company would have two workers in each truck so that one could move it if a ticket agent arrived.
Last Thursday, President Clinton asked Congress to provide 200,000 visas for high-tech workers in each of the next three years, a major increase from existing law, which limits the number of such visas to 107,500 in 2001.
