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open shop
noun
a factory, office, or other business establishment in which a union, chosen by a majority of the employees, acts as representative of all the employees in making agreements with the employer, but in which union membership is not a condition of employment.
open shop
noun
an establishment in which persons are hired and employed irrespective of their membership or nonmembership of a trade union Compare closed shop union shop
open shop
A business that employs both unionized and nonunionized labor.
Other 51Թ Forms
- open-shop adjective
- anti-open-shop noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of open shop1
Example Sentences
He’s already alluded to a reelection campaign, saying it might take more time to reestablish his hometown as a city where every tourist wants to visit and every business wants to open shop.
Critics blame New York’s slow retail growth partly on bureaucratic issues, like delays in setting up a $200 million “social equity” fund to help applicants open shops.
A long queue formed outside the only open shop as people sought supplies.
It was the “open shop capital of America.”
The march was to “raise a voice against the hate” and “open shops of love in the bazaar of hate,” he said.
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