Translation of blue-collar in Spanish: blue-collar
Pronunciation /ˌbluˈkɑlər/ /ˌbluːˈkɒlə/ adjective
(union) obrero
(job) manual
blue-collar workers — los obreros
English example sentences
Virtually every industry has reported layoffs of both white- and blue-collar workers. Both work and family did indeed emerge among the blue-collar workers' core values. There were blue-collar workers concerned about losing their jobs to immigrants and rioters. It depicts a blue-collar worker, but it's afraid to show the work she'd actually do. Unemployment among blue-collar workers rose when heavy industry shifted its production focus. The blue-collar workers in the boroughs aren't allowed to touch stop signs or any street signage. Both are blue-collar workers, and both have enough size, strength and savvy to clog up the middle. The daughter of a blue-collar factory worker, Anne grew up on a council estate in Bracknell. The Tokyo economy grew so fast in the 1980s that the city faced a shortage of blue-collar workers. She is equally comfortable dealing with blue-collar workers and elite patrons. Obviously, this applies not only to blue-collar factory workers, but to people who work in offices or the service sector. My Dad is a retired blue-collar worker, having once been a bus driver in Glasgow, and later a button pusher at the local power station. Give the country boy, blue-collar worker, farmer in Tennessee a voice he can relate to. Sauer's study is noteworthy because of its emphasis on blue-collar workers at risk. His dad was the average blue-collar worker, a Pittsburgh trademark. He decries the shortage of blue-collar workers which, in his opinion, this allowance will make worse not better. Technically they belong to the cops, but city blue-collar workers have access to them as needed. He treats everyone, be they blue-collar workers or heads of state, with the same respect. Many manufacturing companies said that they had stepped up hiring of both blue-collar and white-collar workers. There have also been large numbers of blue-collar workers in service and garment industries.