They also want workers who are good at learning new computer skills.

"We don't want workers who are gainfully employed to be displaced by workfare participants," he said.

Employers have told us that means they want good-looking white people in the front and hard workers in the back.

G. E. said it wanted workers to give up $2 an hour.

Subaru doesn't want workers laid off from the Ford assembly line.

"If they do not work hard enough, why does he want less workers?"

Those in the opposite camp say that the employers simply want cheaper foreign workers and could get local applicants if they simply paid more.

He wanted workers to own houses and refrigerators, not the means of production.

Mr. Giuliani also wants workers to pick up some of their medical costs, as is common in private industry.

Delphi wanted workers to accept wages of $10 to $12 an hour, compared with the $26 to $30 an hour most make today.