After graduating at secondary school, he worked as an assembly worker.

A typical assembly worker makes about 210 rubles a month.

Management sought assembly workers at the local unemployment office, but was unable to keep up with demand.

The 200 manufacture and assembly workers wear blue antistatic coats.

Previously, assembly workers who were laid off during tool changes collected unemployment benefits and could take vacation at other times.

The assembly workers here are models of industrial efficiency, rolling out a gleaming new sedan once every 57 seconds.

To detractors, the vehicles look like a mistake, as if an assembly worker forgot to finish his job.

Ms. Keeler, the electronics assembly worker, is on her third job in the last year and she counts more than six since 1997.

The engineers and assembly workers have done a fine job, but better-sourced parts (particularly trim) would pay dividends.

Just $5 goes to the foreman, technicians and assembly workers, who earn as little as 70 cents a day.

Assembly workers have become more involved in the business issues of plants and must accept more responsibility for decisions that once were made by foremen.

Detroit's auto makers currently pay about $19 an hour to assembly workers and parts workers alike.

Only Ford has a contract that requires it to pay parts workers as much as assembly workers.

"We are not laying off assembly workers."

The union identified the woman as Michelle Rodgers, an assembly worker in a dishwasher plant.

The Mexican wage rates, under $1 an hour, compare with rates of more than $9 an hour being paid to assembly workers here.

"He can accomplish things because he's a manager," said Frank Kruzela, a retired assembly worker.

Saturn, in contrast to other General Motors plants, was designed to give assembly workers more responsibility for business decisions like choosing suppliers.

A jockey, a Girl Scout leader, a policewoman and an auto assembly worker attended.

"I'll be there next year," said Milbrett-Parham, who is an assembly worker in the fiber-optics industry.

During those two hours, he'd had tea and chatted with the assembly workers and technicians over the span of both lunch breaks.

For example, it is usually unnecessary to analyze jobs of 200 assembly workers when a sample of 10 jobs will be sufficient.

Fewer parts/sub-assemblies need be designed, made, and kept in inventory, and assembly workers don't need so much training.

Many now reward assembly workers who produce more and are taken greater care in scheduling both workers and the arrival of raw materials.

This is no Finnvardian assembly worker.