Age is included as well, since federal law only covers workers over 40.

The next year, companies with 50 to 200 employees must cover workers, but not dependents.

The 36 new contracts, which covered 127,000 workers, raised wages 3.1 percent on average in their first year.

That would cover 20 million workers in 100,000 single-employer plans.

But he is hardly alone in covering workers and issues that relate to them.

The laws generally cover workers at businesses that have contracted with a city or county government.

By June 1944, almost 4,500 such committees were in existence, covering 3.5 million workers.

The contract, approved Wednesday, covers 66,000 workers in 15 states.

The act did not cover domestic workers, as well as a number of other employees.

These are jointly sponsored by more than one company, covering workers from a single union.