maintenance of membership

American  

noun

1. an arrangement or agreement between an employer and a labor union by which employees who are members of the union at the time the agreement is made, or who subsequently join, must either remain members until the agreement expires, or be discharged.

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Example Sentences

In depriving unions of the closed shop, the Act had taken away the choicest tool for maintenance of membership.

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To Mr. Avery, maintenance of membership was the wartime equivalent of the closed shop, to which he is bitterly, irreconcilably opposed.

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Representatives of the United Steelworkers Union, C.I.O., sat down to bargain with Buffalo's New York Car Wheel Co., quickly got maintenance of membership and a checkoff of union dues.

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The 77-year-old Stamford plant had accepted a wartime maintenance of membership contract under protest.

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It reopened the old Montgomery Ward case by summarily ordering the company to grant maintenance of union membership; it denied maintenance of membership to the United Automobile Workers at Chrysler because of continued wildcat strikes.

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