hiring hall
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈhaɪərɪŋ hɔl/
- Jargon
:
oficina de contratación
- The union bosses control jobs—staff jobs or hiring hall jobs—the coin of the political realm.
- a union hiring hall
Examples
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He reminded Mr. Bannister that Mr. Bannister... ...had to go to the seaman's hiring hall and use his persuasive powers... ...to convince the defendant to take the job.
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They are called for work in order, much as in a union hiring hall.
Academic text (2010) -
Now, New York is not as big a city as it pretends to be... ...so I spent the next day in the hiring hall, waiting for a ship.
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I've benefited from collective bargaining, but never enjoyed the protections of a burial association or hiring hall.
Blog text (9) -
See supra note 34 (explaining that Koistinen got his job through the NMU's New York City hiring hall).
Academic text (2017) -
When the Carpenters set up electrician hiring halls in St. Louis to directly compete with lower wages and left the AFL-CIO and the Construction Trades Councils a long while back, please don't pretend you've not gone on your own.
Blog text (27) -
Workers gather each morning at the hiring hall to receive their job assignments based on seniority.
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At the hiring hall, job seekers wait for their turn to be assigned to different construction sites.
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The union's hiring hall helps ensure that employment opportunities are distributed fairly among its members.
Synonyms
A government office where people find job vacancies and get help claiming money when they have no work
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'hiring hall' is transparently composed from 'hiring' (the process of recruiting) and 'hall' (a place/building), so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer it denotes a place where hiring takes place. Specific institutional details (e.g., union-run, assignment by seniority) are not predictable from the parts, but the core locative meaning is directly derivable.
Etymology
The noun hiring hall comes from the image of workers standing in a hall waiting to be 'hired' for a job. Unions ran these halls and gave work out in order or to those who had worked longer, so the phrase means a union office that gives out 'job assignments'.