Sentence examples for Blue-collar labour from inspiring English sources

Blue-collar labour costs in Guangdong and other coastal hubs have been rising at double-digit rates for a decade.

Blue-collar Labour voters in Scotland, one of the party's heartlands, have defected in huge numbers in response the upbeat SNP message that Scotland would be richer and happier alone.

Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson, president of the blue-collar labour organisation, LO, is confident that it will rise in the coming years.

The very architecture of much of working-class Britain — narrow row houses, bleak alleyways — evokes the founding political distinctions between white-collar Conservatives and blue-collar Labour.

In our view, the problem is more exactly the internalisation of shareholder value pressures, and to illustrate the point we present below a kind of thought experiment about a different Apple (without shareholder value) which was willing to accept lower margins and employ more US blue collar labour.

They were initially a strong blue collar labour force, providing skill for the building trade and service sectors.

The Tories claim they succeeded in part by targeting blue-collar unionists, Labour voters who put defending the UK first.

In Rotherham, Rother Valley, Dudley North, Plymouth Moor View and Penistone and Stocksbridge, the speed of Ukip's advance, coupled with evidence of a broader decline in blue-collar support for Labour, led the Fabians to talk of a "considerable vulnerability to Ukip".

Members are meeting at the party's annual conference in Doncaster, with the focus on winning what it calls the "blue-collar vote" from Labour and the Conservatives.

The 2011 Scottish election, however, was a perfect storm: blue-collar voters disillusioned with Labour, a Labour leadership complacent after decades of dominance in Scotland, the Liberal Democrats now in government and suddenly unpopular.

There are the Labour blue-collar voters who want more social welfare and income redistribution.