laborers

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Villegas was waiting with other day laborers, including Pedro Vasquez Perdomo and Carlos Osorto, when masked armed men aggressively approached and arrested them “based on their appearance,” Tolchin said in the habeas petition.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 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

Holland said his laborers in Texas often live far away from job sites and are getting walloped at the gas pump.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

“This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

And so he bade the laborers build a little room and an earthen stove in it and he bought a good cauldron.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck