workplace where employees are required to belong to the union or pay dues as a condition of employment.
A union security contract clause requiring those employees who are covered by the contract, but who decline to join the union, to pay a service fee to the union equal to, or a percentage of, the union dues. This fee is intended to compensate the union which, by law, must give full and equal representation to all bargaining unit members, regardless of membership status (also called "Fair Share").
An arrangement that requires an employee, as a condition of employment, either to join the recognized employee organization, or to pay the organization a service fee (see Agency Fee) covering the cost of representation to the employee organization.
Form of union security under which all employees-nonmembers as well as members of the union-pay union dues as a condition of employment. City central - A union council formed to correlate activities of union locals in a community.
A place of employment where nonunion members must pay union dues because the union acts as their agent when bargaining with management.
Source: Economics: Principles & Practices Definition: arrangement under which non-union members must pay union dues (p. 201)
It is a clause in a collective bargaining agreement which requires non-union members to pay the union an amount equal to the amount of members' dues.
A firm that requires employees who refuse to join the union to pay amounts equal to union dues and fees for the union's representative services.
A workplace in which employees who refuse to join the union are required to pay a service fee. (In Canada, it's usually known as the Rand formula.)
A contract provision under which employees who do not join the union are required to pay a collective bargaining service fee instead. This service fee is usually the same as monthly dues. In some states public workers choose to pay service fee based on a percentage of the Union's budget spent on representing the bargaining unit's time and money spent on organizing and political action, not considered to be directly representing members.
An agency shop is a place of employment where workers must pay union dues whether they are a member of a labor union or not. This mandatory payment is sometimes called the Rand formula. The first agency shop was established at the Ford Motor Company plant in Ontario, Canada, in 1946.