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Open shop   /ˈoʊpən ʃɑp/   Listen
Open shop

noun
1.
A company whose workers are hired without regard to their membership in a labor union.





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"Open shop" Quotes from Famous Books



... the most insignificant affair of state. Moreover the means were wanting to him even had he been disposed to grant assistance. The terrible Duke of Lerma was still his inexorably lord and master, and the secretary of that powerful personage, who kept an open shop for the sale of offices of state both high and low, took care that all the proceeds should flow into the coffers of the Duke and his own lap ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... his nerves like flint, The sturdy butcher seized upon the hint,— At least he seized upon the foremost wether,— And hugg'd and lugg'd and tugg'd him neck and crop Just nolens volens thro' the open shop— If tails come off he didn't care a feather,— Then walking to the door and smiling grim, He rubb'd his forehead and his sleeve together— ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... arbitration, nor is it an industrial court. It is stimulation to self-government in industry. The plan contains no essence of opposition to organized labor or organized employers. It involves no dispute of the right to strike or lock out, nor of the closed or open shop. It simply proposes a sequence of steps that should lead to collective bargain without imposing compulsions, courts, injunctions, fines, or jail. It is at least a new step and worth careful consideration before employees and employers subject ...
— Herbert Hoover - The Man and His Work • Vernon Kellogg


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