Sentence examples for blue-collar labor from inspiring English sources

But that is producing chronic overcapacity together with an acute shortage of blue-collar labor.

A veteran of blue-collar labor battles on behalf of carpenters, garment workers and others, Mr. Hermanson has long argued that companies require more stick than carrot.

"Think General Motors, an automobile company where mass production was happening at plants, thanks to a confluence of factors, including access to power, water, and a blue-collar labor force.

CBS found a hit with "Undercover Boss," a reality show that disguises business owners and executives as entry-level employees in their own companies, including Hooters and Frontier Airlines; stripped of their jets, limousines and personal assistants, bosses discover just how hard — and badly paid — blue-collar labor really is.

As her ceremonial funeral unfolded in London last week, residents of one Yorkshire mining village burned her in effigy, blaming her for crushing blue-collar labor union power and ruining job prospects for future working-class generations, even as others benefited from her radical rewriting of the British social contract.

Stringing words together, spelling them right, and ensuring you follow rules of grammar and propriety are the blue-collar labor of the intelligentsia.

The center was initially respected not only clinically, but also as a jobs market for black doctors and professionals, as well as the local blue collar labor force, which had few other opportunities.

But I didn't quit it without the option of a better job in place -- my blue collar, labor activist family trained me to do no less.

Floyd, an Army veteran who was wounded during the Korean War, was also a champion of blue-collar workers, organized labor and veterans.

Although Kemp tried to appeal to the conservatives, his libertarian philosophies of tolerance and individual rights and his commitment to supporting minorities, women, blue-collar workers and organized labor clashed with conservative voters' social and religious values.

Although the dispute involves assistant curators, librarians, archivists and many other workers not fitting labor's traditional blue-collar mold, the strike has turned into a classic labor showdown, albeit with some highbrow grace notes.