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.
- 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