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

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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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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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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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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