closed union

noun

1. a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.

Example Sentences

Together, the pair form a portrait of codependency in the extreme; their daughters are hardly more than disappointed, disappointing interlopers in this closed union.

From The New Yorker

The Taft-Hartley Act outlawed closed union shops and weakened union political activism.

From The Guardian

When the Horizon factory closed, union officials blamed the growing stigma of smoking, and the industry's drive to new markets in the Far East.

From BBC

“This is really a message to every other state that is a closed union shop, that if you do it here you can do it everywhere else,” said Scott Hagerstrom, Michigan director of Americans for Prosperity.

From Washington Post

In 1939, the state passed a bill that presaged the Taft-Hartley Act, the federal law enacted in 1947 that prohibited many strikes and proscribed picketing, and allowed states to pass right-to-work laws against closed union shops.

From New York Times