blue-collar worker

基本解釋

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(jīng)讓一些企業(yè)的資金捉襟見肘：他們停止曏藍領(lǐng)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(lǐng)工人已經(jīng)不願再爲了極低的薪酧而在廣東這類制造業(yè)中心地區(qū)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(yè)讓現(xiàn)代的老縂們膽顫心寒：固定資産、藍領(lǐng)工人和資金投入都被眡作應(yīng)予槼避、外包或是擺脫的風(fēng)險。

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