guest worker
noun
: a foreign laborer working temporarily in an industrialized usually European country
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But the growers who employed the guest workers continued to fight back, and the final outcome was still being debated in Congress.
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
In the first Trump administration, there was an effort underway to have the USDA house an agriculture-specific guest worker program.
—Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
This relationship is appreciated by guest workers and Stemilt has a 95% return rate of workers who choose to come to their orchards each season.
—Steven Savage, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Farmworkers and their advocates, though, are anxious, about both deportations and an expansion of guest worker programs that previously have resulted in complaints about shorted paychecks, unpaid travel time and unsafe housing.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
In the first Trump administration, there was an effort underway to have the USDA house an agriculture-specific guest worker program.
—Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
This relationship is appreciated by guest workers and Stemilt has a 95% return rate of workers who choose to come to their orchards each season.
—Steven Savage, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Farmworkers and their advocates, though, are anxious, about both deportations and an expansion of guest worker programs that previously have resulted in complaints about shorted paychecks, unpaid travel time and unsafe housing.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Guest worker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guest%20worker. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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