union shop
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- noun
- /ˈjun.jən ʃɑp/
- US
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empresa sindical
- The second way to work in a union shop is to unionize within the nonunion workplace where you are currently employed.
- union shop steward
Examples
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It's not so much a strategy of finding a union job as it is of finding a union shop.
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For most workers, getting a job in a union shop is not much different from getting a job anywhere.
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Again, the situation in the absence of RTW laws simply gives companies the option to set up a union shop.
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However, there is nothing that prevents a high degree of performance-based pay in a union shop.
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There are two ways to end up in a union shop, says Galen Munroe, spokesman for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
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Most employees at the company joined the union after being hired in the union shop.
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In a union shop, new hires must become union members within a few weeks of starting work.
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She was excited to learn that her new job was in a union shop which provided good benefits.
How Unionized
Surface Forms
Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'union' and 'shop' can infer this refers to a workplace connected with a labor union (a shop associated with a union), so the general idea is recoverable from the parts. However, the specific institutional meaning (that employees must join the union within a set period) is a technical labour-relations detail not predictable from the constituents alone, making the expression only partially transparent.
Etymology
Union shop comes from a simple image: a union, a group of workers, and a shop, a workplace, working together. You may be hired without being a member but then 'must join' the union within a short time, so a union shop today means a company that makes new employees join the union.