Definitions for "American plan"
In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
Meal plan that includes three meals daily with the hotel room price. Also called Full Pension Plan (See also Modified American Plan).
A hotel rate which includes the price of the room and all three meals per guest for each day of your stay.
Device or slogan of an employer group in 1920s designed to counteract the labor movement and especially to inhibit the spread of closed shops. City Industrial union council - A union body composed of the various AFL-CIO locals within a city or metropolitan area
An aspect of anti-unionism of the 1920s, this saw unions as antithetical to the individual's freedom of contract. Employees should be happy to succeed on their own merits, so incentives were offered for the purchase of company stock while demands were extracted that employees would not join unions.
The American Plan is the term that most U.S. employers in the 1920s used to describe their policy of refusing to negotiate with unions. The policy promoted union-free open shops. As a result, union membership in 1920 shrank from 5 million to some 3.6 million in 1923.