guest worker
noun
: a foreign laborer working temporarily in an industrialized usually European country
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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.
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Kee Hyun Park, The Conversation, 20 Nov. 2025
This lawsuit echoes an earlier case against Ostrom Farms, which discriminated against women workers, firing them all and replacing them with male H-2A guest workers in 2021.
—Rosa Maria Navarro, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
Unlike seasonal farm jobs such as fruit picking, which often use H-2A guest worker visas, year-round agricultural operations such as dairy farms are ineligible for these visas.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
For years, the agricultural sector has been pleading for a strong and efficient guest worker program.
—Dallas Morning News, Twin Cities, 23 July 2025
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Kee Hyun Park, The Conversation, 20 Nov. 2025
This lawsuit echoes an earlier case against Ostrom Farms, which discriminated against women workers, firing them all and replacing them with male H-2A guest workers in 2021.
—Rosa Maria Navarro, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
Unlike seasonal farm jobs such as fruit picking, which often use H-2A guest worker visas, year-round agricultural operations such as dairy farms are ineligible for these visas.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
For years, the agricultural sector has been pleading for a strong and efficient guest worker program.
—Dallas Morning News, Twin Cities, 23 July 2025
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“Guest worker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guest%20worker. Accessed 5 Dec. 2025.
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