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nonunion shop

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noun

  1. a shop or business in which the employer fixes terms and conditions of employment unilaterally without recognizing or dealing with a union.


Example Sentences

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But the factory, it turns out, is a nonunion shop, the company’s president said.

From New York Times

The sets for James Robinson and Camille A. Brown’s production of Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” the first opera by an African American composer scheduled for the Met, are being built at a nonunion shop in California.

From Seattle Times

With its acquisition by ND Paper, the mill became — for the first time in decades — a nonunion shop.

From New York Times

His new factory was a nonunion shop.

From New York Times

The Golden Rule was a fiercely nonunion shop—which would, over the next few years, find itself at the center of a citywide boycott and labor battle—and as a result wages were low.

From Literature