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• 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.

• proletarian
• prole
• actor
• doer

• nonworker

News & Articles

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• Worker killed when Mesa bridge collapses
  A construction worker was killed and another injured Wednesday morning when portions of a bridge under construction in Mesa collapsed.
  June 19, 2013 - CBS 5 Phoenix
• Worker pulled from waist-deep mud in Queens trench
  A worker is recovering in the hospital after a frightening ordeal in which he was trapped waist-deep for hours in a muddy trench.
  June 18, 2013 - WABC-TV New York
• Worker Pulled from 25-Foot Trench After 2-Hour Rescue
  A construction worker was pulled from a 25-foot trench by firefighters after a rescue effort that went on for more than two hours Tuesday night at a work site in Queens where work was supposed to be...
  June 18, 2013 - NBC New York

Quotes

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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."