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open shop

A business or factory in which workers are employed without regard to union membership.

open shop

(Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) an establishment in which persons are hired and employed irrespective of their membership or nonmembership of a trade union Compare closed shop, union shop

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open shop - a company whose workers are hired without regard to their membership in a labor union

company - an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage"

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closed shop company open openness union shop			And we see it now with the so-called Responsible Employer Ordinance, which deters open-shop contractors from bidding for public work. Union shops shouldn't have a monopoly by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) He added that the Newspaper Guild has signed open-shop contracts with newspapers in other cities and states. Is the Post-Dispatch only pro-union for its readers? by Israel, Benjamin / St. Louis Journalism Review Some of the union-inspired state provisions add to construction costs generally, but Worcester's REO seems tailored to give unfair advantage to union general contractors and subcontractors while deterring open-shop contractors from submitting bids. Rescind REO; City pays for anti-competitive bidding ordinance by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)			open-end wrench open-ended open-eyed open-face sandwich open-faced open-field Open-front furnace open-handed open-handedness Open-headed open-heart open-heart surgery open-hearted open-hearth open-hearth furnace open-hearth process Open-hearth steel open-market operations open-minded open-mindedness open-mouthed open-necked open-plan open-pollinated open-reel open-shop open-source open-source intelligence Open-timber roof open-top Openbill opencast opencast mining opencut opened opener openhanded openhandedness openhearted opening opening hours opening line opening move opening night opening time opening transaction openly openmouthed openness openside plane openwork			Open-Ocean Deep Convection Open-outcry open-packed structure open-panel HMO open-phase protection open-phase relay Open-pit mine Open-pit mining Open-pit mining open-pit quarry open-plan Open-plan classroom open-plan educational building Open-plan office Open-plan office Open-plan office Open-plan office Open-Plus-Closed-Loop Open-Point Expanding open-pollinated Open-reel open-riser stair open-set speech recognition Open-Shell Coupled-Cluster Method Open-Shell Coupled-Cluster with Single and Double Excitations Open-Shell Perturbation Theory Open-Shell Restricted Self-Consistent Field Open-Shell Restricted-Hartree-Fock open-shop Open-Short-Load Open-Short-Load-Thru open-side planer open-side tool block open-source open-source Open-source (software) Open-Source Bloomberg Box Open-Source Character Recognition Open-source culture Open-source intelligence Open-source intelligence Open-Source Knowledge Management Open-source license Open-Source Linux-Based VPN Open-source movement Open-Source Operating System Open-Source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol Open-source search engine Open-source search engine Open-source search engine Open-source search engines Open-source search engines Open-source search engines Open-source software Open-Source Speech Recognition Initiative Open-sourcing open-space index open-space structure open-stope method

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