How to Use guest worker in a Sentence

guest worker

noun
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  • Well, there’s a guest worker program that would solve a lot of it.
    — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Analysts tend to pin much of this on the background of the guest workers.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Throughout the last decade, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has changed his tune on guest worker visas.
    — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 9 July 2023
  • That began to change about a decade ago, when the first of dozens of young, white workers flew in from South Africa on special guest worker visas.
    — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • For decades, unions opposed guest worker programs such as Vermont's in the mid-1970s.
    — Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, 1 Feb. 2020
  • First, Munger passed over U.S. workers for foreign guest workers.
    — Fortune, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Kashkooli said not only would farm wages drop, but the amount of substandard housing for guest workers would increase.
    — Fox News, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Much of Germany’s postwar growth has been made possible by guest workers, many of them from Turkey and North Africa.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • That problem can be solved all over America with a guest worker program.
    — Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
  • That order was set to lapse -- but it will now be extended until the end of 2020 and expanded to include some guest worker visas.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 24 June 2020
  • But guest workers are not the answer: H-2A visas are subject to changes that can weaken guest workers’ rights and undermine the wages of workers who live here.
    — Michael Greenberg, The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2019
  • Critics of the guest worker program say such jobs should pay more, in order to atttract more teenagers and American workers who have dropped out of the labor force.
    — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 25 May 2018
  • If a proposed rule-change takes effect, guest workers could become an even larger source of labour in low-wage industries.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2020
  • The fruit drop had made this hard job harder and less lucrative for pickers, who often come from Mexico on guest worker visas for the season.
    — USA Today, 13 May 2020
  • The rest were foreign guest workers with H-2B visas, the only immigration program the president has sought to expand.
    — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 10 July 2018
  • But sticking points have emerged over how many guest workers should be allowed into the U.S. and whether caps limiting their numbers could be raised in the future, lawmakers said.
    — Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 9 July 2018
  • Those by legal, temporary migrants—or guest workers—in search of low-wage work have risen dramatically over the past decade.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Commonly, after their student visa many would secure sponsorship for their first job via the H-1B guest worker visa.
    — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • Mexican guest worker Ernesto Dimas was accustomed to the rigors of the cherry harvest.
    — Hal Bernton, Star Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
  • That increase in legal guest workers was prompted in part by greater security on the southern border.
    — Christopher Harress | Charress@al.com, al, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Gowers called on the government to consider a guest worker programme to avoid price rises and investment cuts.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Millions of guest workers came to the United States from Mexico under a government program that lasted for decades.
    — Jaqueline Hurtado and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Farms can’t bring immigrants in as seasonal guest workers for year-round jobs, such as milking cows, and sponsoring them for a green card is a lengthy process that may cost thousands of dollars.
    — Maria Perez, jsonline.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Remember, Trump has always been a fan of foreign guest workers, using H-2B visas to get workers for his properties at lower wages.
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Many of the guest workers were already scheduled to return in early November, when their temporary visas expired.
    — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The rules of the agricultural guest worker program forbid recruiting fees.
    — Maria Perez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2019
  • The most recent round tightened North Korea's oil imports and called on other countries to expel North Korean guest workers within two years.
    — Amy B Wang, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • In Macau, authorities said sales would be restricted to a maximum of 10 face masks to residents or authorized guest workers who can present a valid ID card.
    — Time, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The latest round tightened North Korea’s oil imports and called on other countries to expel North Korean guest workers within two years.
    — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
  • In addition, dairy farms can’t use a federal guest worker program to bring in immigrants on temporary visas.
    — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2023

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