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Bus/Financial - Human Resources | | Chinese term or phrase: 卡 | What does 卡 mean here? The context is an effort to introduce a collective wage bargaining system in Henan.
因为工会没有行政职能，最多只能用“评选市级以上劳模”来卡那些拒不签订工资协商协定的企业，但是很多企业根本不在乎这个。 |
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| | English translation:check, control, restrain... | Explanation:
to check, use restraint or pressure etc.. against those enterprises, in order to have them sign the wage bargaining
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Note added at 28 mins (2008-06-21 12:08:58 GMT)
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literally: 'to hold them firmly between thumb and index" ;-)
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Note added at 1 hr (2008-06-21 12:53:20 GMT)
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I guess so. |
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peter arnout
Belgium
Local time: 12:22
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20 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +1
13 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +3 check, control, restrain...
Explanation:
to check, use restraint or pressure etc.. against those enterprises, in order to have them sign the wage bargaining
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Note added at 28 mins (2008-06-21 12:08:58 GMT)
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literally: 'to hold them firmly between thumb and index" ;-)
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Note added at 1 hr (2008-06-21 12:53:20 GMT)
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I guess so.
| peter arnout
Belgium
Local time: 12:22
Native speaker of: Dutch
PRO pts in category: 4
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Asker: Thanks. So they put pressure on the enterprises by threatening not to pick one of their workers as a municipal-level-or-above model worker?
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