How to Use worker in a Sentence

worker

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  • If management doesn't make the changes, the workers will go on strike.
  • They are both hard workers.
  • The company is planning to hire 200 workers.
  • The average worker earned $1,000 more this year.
  • The government has not given an estimate; one worker at the site guessed that hundreds remained.
    — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Fortunately, companies can take steps to roll out or expand AI initiatives without burning out workers.
    — Bob Violino, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024
  • On the ride over, one co-worker passed around a bald cap.
    — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2023
  • And Gen Z workers don’t tend to stay in the same jobs for too long.
    — Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 5 July 2024
  • Two of the workers are dead; four are still missing and presumed dead.
    — Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Just the guy who owns the company, or does the worker benefit?
    — CBS News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The union had spoken about getting the support of 70% of the workers before filing for a vote.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • For many, hourly pay falls below that of some baristas and fast-food workers.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Scott Gallegos likened the smell to the one fast-food workers constantly have to wash out of their clothes.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Some are finding a haven in Japan, where most workers have returned to the office and banks are eager to lend.
    — Sylvan Lebrun, WSJ, 25 July 2023
  • That's the highest number of U.N. workers killed in the history of the United Nations.
    — CBS News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • For starters, look to Japan, where workers receive about the same vacation days a year but tend to take just about all of them.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2024
  • And wage growth for workers has outpaced price increases over the past year.
    — Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 8 June 2024
  • One group that is not covered by the raises is pilots, one of the only group of workers that belong to a union.
    — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2024
  • ChatGPT has given rise to a new class of worker: the overemployed.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Brookhart has a co-worker, a veteran, who told her that the folks on her base depended on those thrift stores.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Last month, workers at a Hyundai plant in Alabama also hit that milestone, the union said.
    — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Unions last year secured $25 an hour for healthcare workers and $20 an hour for fast-food workers.
    — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
  • Instead, these local film workers are waiting out the strikes.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The union also wants more time off for workers, including a four-day workweek.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The long duration of the strikes has hurt Hollywood workers, some of whom have struggled to make ends meet and have left the state in order to survive.
    — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Given the looming shifts in the workforce landscape, the future could be bleak, even for white collar workers.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 June 2024
  • It was built to provide housing for the major uptick in defense workers during WWII.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The best time to do this is in late fall after most worker wasps have died off or in early spring before nests become active.
    — Rebecca Straus, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
  • For the second time, case workers removed him from his parents, citing their neglect and his dire health.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • In the future, the elderly could outnumber the young, leaving not enough workers to pay taxes and fill jobs.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023

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