How to Use guest worker in a Sentence

guest worker

noun
  • 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
  • Trump’s properties have made extensive use of guest worker visas.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2025
  • That problem can be solved all over America with a guest worker program.
    — Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
  • Kashkooli said not only would farm wages drop, but the amount of substandard housing for guest workers would increase.
    — Fox News, 17 Sep. 2019
  • That increase in legal guest workers was prompted in part by greater security on the southern border.
    — Christopher Harress | [email protected], al, 19 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Even in its present, highly flawed form, the program boosts the prosperity of Americans and guest workers alike.
    — Eric Levitz, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • The mother represents the old Göteborg, the guest worker who came and helped build the city’s prosperity.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
  • In my view, guest worker visas, like the H-2A and H-2B, are never ideal.
    — Gabrielle Clark, The Conversation, 29 Jan. 2025
  • But even if guest workers arrive before crawfish season ends around June, Lawson says, the damage is done.
    — Stephen Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Gowers called on the government to consider a guest worker programme to avoid price rises and investment cuts.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2017
  • But details from three federal lawsuits point to a dangerous work climate for the ranch’s seasonal guest workers.
    — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2024
  • The rules of the agricultural guest worker program forbid recruiting fees.
    — Maria Perez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the growers who employed the guest workers continued to fight back, and the final outcome was still being debated in Congress.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Video Waitresses live three and four to an apartment, and at the ski resorts, J-1 visa holders, designed for guest workers from abroad, share bunk beds.
    — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Mexican guest worker Ernesto Dimas was accustomed to the rigors of the cherry harvest.
    — Hal Bernton, Star Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Despite the prosperity, many Swiss had mixed emotions about the guest workers, who came largely from Southern Europe.
    — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many growers are turning to the H-2A guest worker program – a legal pipeline for seasonal foreign labor that has quadrupled in size over the past decade.
    — Kee Hyun Park, The Conversation, 20 Nov. 2025

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