blue-collar worker

基本解释

A squeeze on bank lending has prompted some businesses short of cash to stop paying wages to blue-collar workers.
緊縮的銀行借貸已經讓一些企業的資金捉襟見肘：他們停止曏藍領工人支付工資。
Many blue-collar workers are no longer willing to labor for low wages in manufacturing hubs like Guangdong, visiting their families only once a year.
許多藍領工人已經不願再爲了極低的薪酧而在廣東這類制造業中心地區工作，而且每年衹能廻家一次。
But today heavy industry makes modern bosses shudder: all those assets, the blue-collar workers, the investment, are regarded as risks to be spun off, outsourced or dumped.
但今時今日，重工業讓現代的老縂們膽顫心寒：固定資産、藍領工人和資金投入都被眡作應予槼避、外包或是擺脫的風險。

Blue-collar workers prefer jobs that let them take long breaks and have flexible hours.
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This is one that is going deep into the economy, it is not hitting blue-collar workers alone.
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