pruning

Crouched in cold mud under a thin Spring rain, vineyard employee Élodie Bonet snaps off unwanted vine shoots with her fingers and pruning clippers.

“Flashlight,” her new book, grew from a 2020 short story in the New Yorker, and shares that deliberate pruning.

I am told there may be some "light pruning" but no major changes are expected.

However, the chancellor suggested a loss of 10,000 roles, which is only a pruning of a workforce of over half a million - especially as it sees 30-40,000 leavers every year.

“We work, even when we’re scared,” one worker said, while pruning grape vines on a recent afternoon.