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agency shop

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agency shop
n.
An establishment in which a union represents all employees regardless of union membership but requires that nonmembers pay union dues or fees.


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Workers who opt out most often lose grievance and voting rights on union contracts and union officers, thus paying agency shop union dues but once again truly having their voices silenced in their own unions.
According to the suit, ALADS' 6,000 members voted in October to charge members and non-members an agency shop fee to represent them in bargaining agreements with L.
"The union leadership made it clear to me months before the strike began-indeed, before the negotiations began-that an agency shop was going to be the sine qua non for a settlement," he said.
 
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