laborers
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The Transport Workers Union representing those laborers have vowed court action.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Yank believes that it is they, the laborers heaving coal for hours amid the broiling heat of the engine room, who are the real masters of the ship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
She is one of several performers who play the roles known collectively as “Kinker & Roust,” slang terms for acrobats/aerialists and “roustabouts,” a.k.a. circus laborers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Once, border migration patterns resembled a loop: thousands of laborers, mostly men, commuted here once or twice a year from Mexico to jobs in the fields, then on to other jobs once harvests were over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Keav still lives in Kong Cha Lat, a teenage work camp with about 160 laborers.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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