blue-collar staff

blue-collar staff

Members of the working class, especially manual laborers. The phrase refers to the collar of a laborer's typical uniform, in contrast to the "white collar" shirts that typically accompany formal dress. You'll have a hard time retaining blue-collar staff if you keep denying them raises.
See also: staff
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • blue-collar worker
  • blue collar
  • get hot under the collar
  • feel (one's) collar
  • feel someone's collar
  • work up to the collar
  • up the river
  • against the collar
  • make (one) hot under the collar
  • have (one's) collar felt