This word is from the Spanish sacada.
sa·ká·da
sakáda
migrant farmworker
These are migrant laborers from other towns. They accept wages that are way lower than those demanded by local workers. Close concepts in English-speaking countries would be scabs, strike breakers or illegal migrants.
In the Visayas region, these are mostly people who work in the sugarcane fields.
In the early 1900s, Hawaii’s sugar plantation owners faced a labor shortage. They turned to the Philippines, which was then a U.S. territory, to recruit workers. The first group of Filipino laborers were known as sakadas — they arrived in Hawaii in 1906.
MGA KAHULUGAN SA TAGALOG
sakáda: manggagawà mula sa ibang pook na nagtatrabaho nang may suweldong higit na mababà kaysa taal na manggagawà ng isang pook
sakáda: nandarayuhang manggagawà
