union shop

noun

1. a shop, business establishment, or part thereof, in which terms and conditions of employment for all employees are fixed by agreement between the employer and a labor union.
2. a shop, business, etc., in which membership in a union is made a condition of employment, but in which the employer may hire nonunion workers provided that they become members after a stated period, usually 30 days.

union shop

noun

1. (formerly) an establishment whose employment policy is governed by a contract between employer and a trade union permitting the employment of nonunion labour only on the condition that such labour joins the union within a specified time period Compare open shop closed shop

union shop

1. A business or industry in which all new workers must join a labor union after a specified period of time. ( See closed shop and right-to-work laws .)

Word History and Origins

Origin of union shop¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The union’s likely defeat caps a more-than four-month campaign to turn the Alabama warehouse into a union shop.

From Washington Post

As for the idea of the preferential Union shop, it had undoubtedly been gaining ground.

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They almost mobbed the East Side leaders, with their voluble questioning about the preferential Union shop.

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A marked difference in costs of production will cause the free shop to grow and the union shop to shrink.

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The institution of the Union shop is by intention democratic and inclusive.

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In this very usual demand for the "closed shop" or "union shop" the public can see very little justice.

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