open shop

open shop
noun
a company whose workers are hired without regard to their membership in a labor union
• Hypernyms: ↑company

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open shop [open shop] noun
a business, factory, etc. where people can work without being members of a ↑trade union. Many British factories and other places of work used to be ↑closed shops, where everybody had to belong to a particular trade union, until the 1980s when the laws affecting the unions were changed, and they became less powerful. In the US most companies operate as open shops though there is no longer a law requiring them to do so.

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  • open-shop — open shop·per; …   English syllables

  • open shop — ☆ open shop n. a factory, business, etc. employing workers without regard to whether or not they are members of a union with which it may have a contract; also, the policy of employing workers in this way …   English World dictionary

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