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wur ker

  • n  a person who works at a specific occupation
    he is a good worker
  • n  a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
    workers of the world--unite!
  • n  sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae
  • n  a person who acts and gets things done
    he's a miracle worker

  • About two-thirds of restaurant workers are foreign born, and increasingly, they're from Central and South America.
  • It's not just low wages, but environmental hazards and labor-law violations that afflict workers on the bottom rungs.
  • Bolivia's sex workers refuse to report for disease detection, demanding protection from harassment.
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  • Chris Brown in OK! Magazine
    Of his hard labor sentence, Chris tells Larry, "everything comes with consequences. They want me to pick up trash remove graffiti: I'ma hard worker. It's something I'm willing to do."
  • Jesse Jackson in ABC News
    These workers deserve their wages, deserve fair notice, deserve health security,Jackson said. "This may be the beginning of long struggle of worker resistance finally."

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