worker

Example Sentences

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“Maracaibo was alive with eager strangers as every boat that landed there disgorged an army of oil workers,” Méndez wrote.

From Los Angeles Times

Factories can’t function without electricity, and many skilled workers have given up their state jobs because wages are so low.

From Salon

Throughout the debate around increasing workers rights under the Employment Rights Act business groups argued that increased benefits and leave provisions would heap costs on to them and reduce their willingness to increase headcount.

From BBC

A week or two before a race, a team of workers uses hoses to spray down the entire course with the intent of it freezing over by morning.

From Los Angeles Times

There is a psychological toll as well as a physical one for the workers keeping the power on.

From The Wall Street Journal