Sentence examples for sugar workers from inspiring English sources

In 1951 he persuaded Antigua's sugar workers to strike for more pay.

Large numbers of migrant sugar workers annually cross the strait from Panay to harvest the cane.

Sugar workers are still paid in Cuban pesos, which go nowhere and buy little.

Indo-Trinidadians dominate food production and comprised the majority of sugar workers.

That they have nothing to do with the disease in all these sugar workers?

And the sugar workers' boss is as cruel as any antebellum slave overseer.

A standard day for an El Salvadorian sugar worker lasts between four and five hours, with double shifts during the summer planting season, when temperatures top out at 40C. "It's suffocating," Edilberto says.

Mr. Wells, 63, the son of a Caribbean sugar worker who came to New Haven in the early 1920's, grew up in a time that had a similar borderland quality.

They go to his agency to change their return tickets so they can leave sooner, thinking nothing of paying a fee of $75, nearly as much as a sugar worker earns in a month.

About a quarter of Negros's 2 million people are-or have been-sugar workers & almost everyone has been directly or indirectly dependent on sugar for survival.

Strikes of sugar mill workers in 1927, waterside workers in 1928, and then transport and timber industry workers in 1929 continued to disrupt economic operations.