shop floor

noun

1. the part of a factory housing the machines and men directly involved in production
2. 1. workers, esp factory workers organized in a union
   2. ( as modifier )

      shop-floor protest

Example Sentences

That feeling is evident out on the shop floor, where customer Doug Hodgson is eyeing up a row of kitchen paraphernalia.

From BBC

Like many of the women who have told the BBC they were abused by Mohamed Al Fayed, Helen says she was spotted by him on one of his routine walks of the Harrods shop floor.

From BBC

Gascoigne joined Harrods as a shop floor worker but was later promoted to her "dream " job of becoming a fashion buyer.

From BBC

Fayed also corrupted the store’s HR department, which played a role in promoting young women from the shop floor to work in his executive suite - aware of his interest in them.

From BBC

“On the shop floor, we had discriminatory conduct, we had coercive questioning, we had unlawful surveillance and we had unlawful promise of benefits” Holden said in a speech on Thursday night.

From Salon

Related Words

• labor pool
• personnel
• workforce