Will your local bus company erect and/or maintain the bus stops at your plant?

If you provide inter plant transportation, can this be replaced by available public transportation? If you use company transportation to meet trains or to haul visitors, would taxis be cheaper?

How efficient and necessary are your intra company vehicles? Can they be re-scheduled? Can part-time drivers be assigned to other productive work?

Which is more economical for your plant -- a vacation shutdown or spaced vacations that require extra employees for vacation fill-ins?

Can vacations be spaced throughout the 12 months to minimize the number of employee fill-ins?

Do you insist that unneeded salary employees take their vacations during plant shutdowns?

What can your sales and purchasing departments do to curtail orders, shipments, and receipts during vacation shutdown periods?

Is an arbitrary retirement age of 65 actually costing your plant money?

What sort of effort do you make to assure that older or disabled workers are fully productive? Would early retirement of non-productive, disabled employees reduce the number of make-work jobs?

Will your union accept seniority concessions in assigning work for older or disabled employees?

Can you share medical facilities and staff with neighboring plants?

If you have a full-time doctor now, can he be replaced with a part-time doctor or one who serves on a fee per case basis only?