The issue focused on workers organizing in retirement at the world's largest privately owned industrial company. Workers saw such a plan as allowing managers to dictate how employees worked and under what conditions. "What they found was that managers were having an actual impact on how workers worked," said Roger Polazer, the workers' attorney, who represented several workers at the site. The company has hired an outside consultant to study the workers' treatment, "but it's not at all clear that's going to change things," he said.