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.
紧缩的银行借贷已经让一些企业的资金捉襟见肘：他们停止向蓝领工人支付工资。
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.
许多蓝领工人已经不愿再为了极低的薪酬而在广东这类制造业中心地区工作，而且每年只能回家一次。
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.
但今时今日，重工业让现代的老总们胆颤心寒：固定资产、蓝领工人和资金投入都被视作应予规避、外包或是摆脱的风险。

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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