maintenance of membership

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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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maintenance of membership

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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The modified union shop, in my opinion, holds no more security for the union than the maintenance of membership which they had before .

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Except in the rare cases where management is willing, it is quite useless for labor to bargain for a closed shop; WLB settles such fights with its formula of maintenance of membership.

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

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