IN a bid to promote expertise, professionalism and the spirit of innovation, Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions selected 94 workers as this year’s “Shanghai standouts.”

The organization announced yesterday that “frontline workers” headed the list, with 69 representatives in the 94, compared with 38 out of 88 last year last year.

Frontline workers are the hands-on people who actually do a job rather than instructing others to do it.