Blue-Collar Workers

adjective describing a level of skill that is between skilled and unskilled

• The company is looking to hire semiskilled workers to assist with the production process.
• They need some semiskilled folks to help out with the job.
• We're on the lookout for some semi-skilled peeps to join the team.
• Becoming a semiskilled worker is like mastering the basics of a craft.

noun a social class consisting of people who work for wages, especially in manual or industrial work

• The working class is the group of people who perform manual labor for wages.
• My family has always been part of the working class, working hard to make ends meet.
• The working class folks are the ones who keep the world turning with their sweat and toil.
• In the game of life, the working class are the true backbone of society.