The majority of EU countries now guarantee workers seats on the board.
A workstation isn't a lathe, but is it "over-enforcement" to leave the workers' seating, lighting and desk heights uninspected for so long?
The cavernous open-plan headquarters of Barack Obama's re-election campaign houses over 300 workers seated in serried rows, jabbering into phones and tapping purposefully at computer keyboards.
"Just sitting here, you have over 100 years of seniority," said Charlie Milan, a gruff-voiced mechanic, pointing to himself and three other workers seated on battered folding chairs in the trailer.
He is depicted as a blustery executive in a gray suit, eating from a tray of oysters on ice and swilling vodka as he barks orders to six Damned Spirits, beleaguered office workers seated at laptops (and sung by the other cast members taking double roles).
In a piece titled "Chutian Golden Paper 2007-08-13, An Escapee Being Chased Dropped Through the Top Floor of a Building and Scared Everybody Inside," office workers seated at a gleaming black conference table gaze up, somewhat apathetically, at the jeans-clad legs of a man dangling from a hole in the ceiling above.
"So Democrats aren't just running on good old ideas like a higher minimum wage, they're running on good new ideas like Medicare for all, giving workers seats on corporate boards, reversing the most egregious corporate tax cuts to make sure college students graduate debt-free".
Several teachers and a social worker seated around a table in the school's cramped administrative offices nodded in agreement.
In John Carpenter's satisfying 1983 adaptation of "Christine," when the Plymouth comes off its Detroit assembly line it crushes a worker's hand and kills another worker seated behind its wheel.
The labor federation said it would deploy more than 200,000 political volunteers next year, adding that it hoped to help elect "a pro-worker president" and help gain three to six "pro-worker seats" in the Senate and five in the House by focusing on Congressional districts with many union members.
