laborers

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He also proposes expanding guest worker programs and “shifting accountability” from workers to corporations that underpay immigrant laborers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Rice farmer Rodel Malinay has shifted to an “on-call” labor system, instead of having three to five laborers working daily, and does more manual labor himself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Picture, said Hutchcraft, laborers going up and down the rows with bags on their shoulders, picking orange fruit and filling them, and then lugging the bags to tubs at the ends of rows.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

In a neighborhood housing migrant laborers in Qatar, people ran screaming as a projectile fell from the sky.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

I then spent about a fortnight on a sugar plantation in Natal living with a group of African laborers and their families in a small community called Tongaat, just up the coast from Durban.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela