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

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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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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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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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