closed shop
a factory, office, or other business establishment in which union membership is a condition of being hired as well as of continued employment.
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Origin of closed shop
1- Compare open shop.
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How to use closed shop in a sentence
Narrowly focused groups like the American Foundation for Equal Rights and Freedom to Marry simply closed shop.
Social media has lit up with pictures of signs posted on the doors of closed shops, declaring that there’s no one there to work.
Pandemics have long created labor shortages. Here’s why. | Spencer Strub | June 3, 2021 | Washington PostHe closed shop in 1984, though he continued creating custom designs for friends and family till his death of AIDS in 1990.
When Fashion Met Art: Andy Warhol & Halston’s Decades-Long Friendship | Raquel Laneri | May 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe was in favor of unions, she said, “but I'm not in favor of a closed shop.”
Right to Work Laws and Why Labor Unions Are in Crisis | Scott Martelle | December 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe conspiracy trials largely turned upon the "closed shop" and in these the shoemakers figured exclusively.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States | Selig Perlman
These, goaded by restrictive union practices, notably the closed shop, appealed to the courts for relief.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States | Selig PerlmanThus it was the effort of the shoemakers' society to secure a closed shop which fell chiefly under the condemnation of the court.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States | Selig PerlmanOf all journeymen indicted during this period the Hudson shoemakers had been the most audacious ones in enforcing the closed shop.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States | Selig PerlmanThese attempts failed because the Union insisted on the question of the closed shop as essential.
Making Both Ends Meet | Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt
British Dictionary definitions for closed shop
(formerly) an industrial establishment in which there exists a contract between a trade union and the employer permitting the employment of the union's members only: Compare open shop, union shop
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for closed shop
Technically, a business in which employees must join a labor union before being hired. This practice is now illegal. The term is used synonymously with union shop.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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