"guest worker" - didn't take long for that line to become universal?

[Deja Q]

Amazing how quickly these cute epithetical massages to "cheap exploitable laborer" become standard.

They must use the same advertising agency as Burger King had; for "guest worker" is as annoying as "tendercrisp" -- and just as inaccurate.

[mdmc]

1. clean skies, help america vote, leave no child, last resort,

guest worker is like worker without rights. Cheap exploitable laborer.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. guest workers need not be 'workers without rights'.

We have two moderate sized fruit farms in our town and they both use legal Jamaican guest workers and they both treat their workforce with dignity and respect. Typically these jobs are handed down along generational lines and our local newspaper runs obituaries when one of our longtime guest workers dies. They are part of our community. Workers without rights are illegals - they have no rights and they are the ones who are exploted, who pay taxes and receive no benefits, who fall below the osha radar. Legalize temporary immigrant workers. This takes away the whole 'but they are illegal' canard. It ends the gross exploitation that characterizes the labor relations between illegals and employers. It defuses the racist xenophobic ant-hispanic rightwing hysteria.

[mdmc]

3. the local mcdonalds has guest workers from the ukraine

your right, they do have rights.