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

They accepted the 25�-an-hour wage increase offered by the company five months ago, abandoned the fight to get a closed shop, compulsory checkoff, or maintenance of membership.

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

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