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

What Little Steel was worried about was the panel's recommendation that maintenance of membership was no more than a fair concession to labor for giving up the right to strike for the duration.

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During the war the machinists, over company protests, secured a maintenance of membership clause from the War Labor Board.

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He still objected strenuously to maintenance of membership, and denied WLB's right to force it on him.

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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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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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