union shop

1. 1.

   a company allowed to hire nonunion workers on the condition that they will join the union within a specified time

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Questions about union shop

What does union shop mean?

union shop means "a company allowed to hire nonunion workers on the condition that they will join the union within a specified time".

Is union shop a common word?

union shop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.