German term
gewerbliche Mitarbeiter
Die Auslastung der gewerblichen Mitarbeiter ist bis Mitte Juni gegeben.
All comments and suggestions welcome.
Apr 22, 2005 19:25: Steffen Walter changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO" , "Field (specific)" from "(none)" to "Human Resources"
Jun 5, 2008 11:17: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Other" to "Bus/Financial"
Proposed translations
blue-collar employees
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izy
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writeaway
: I also have never heard anything to indicate there is anything politically incorrect with the term. is still used a lot, along with white-collar, as you say.
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Sven Petersson
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Rowan Morrell
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Ron Stelter
: It sounds a lot better, Edith, than "unskilled" or what have you. We still say it here in the U.S.
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Ino66 (X)
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or "blue-collar colleagues"
I hope it's quite politically correct. I used to speak with a porter in Paris last summer, and he mentioned "my black colleague". If one can be black, why can't be one "blue-collar"? Hope it helps & best regards.
factory-floor employees
or: industrial workers
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Melissa Field
: for the US, something like this would be an alternative to blue-collar - also, floor associates, hourly associates.
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shopfloor workers
E.g.:
-> "The other change today is that jobs are intrinsically insecure. You could argue that that has always been the case for shopfloor workers. However, if you look back from the end of the industrial revolution until, say, the end of the 1970s, you will see that, although shopfloor workers came in and out of the labour market, they tended to go back to work for their employers. They may have been laid off from the automobile plants, the mines, whatever, but they would be re-employed when they were needed."
From: Emerald Now (see below)
http://mustafa.emeraldinsight.com/vl=11232828/cl=37/nw=1/rpsv/now/archive/1999/health/spotlight1.htm
industrial workers
Weiterbildungsaktivitäten für gewerbliche Arbeitskräfte. ... and implement innovations support further training activities for industrial workers. ...
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