a company that hires only union members
a business or industrial establishment whose employees are required to be union members or to agree to join the union within a specified time after being hired
an agreement or arrangement between an employer and a trade union which requires certain employees to be members of the union
a workplace in which only members of a (particular) union are hired
An agreement between an employer and a union that, as a condition of employment, all employees must belong to the union before being hired. The employer agrees to retain only those employees who belong to a union.
A provision in a collective agreement whereby all employees in a bargaining unit must be union members in good standing before being hired, and new employees must be hired through the union.
A company where all the workers belong to one trade union, and where any job applicant has to be a member of that union before he or she can be employed. In many countries closed shops are illegal.
A firm that requires individuals to join a union before they can be hired.
In a closed shop, provisions written into labor contracts require new workers to join a union before they may be employed. Closed shops were outlawed by the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act.
A closed shop is a business or industrial establishment whose employees are required to be union members (often of a specific union and no other) as a precondition to employment. It is opposed to the open shop, which refuses either to hire workers on the basis of their union membership or to give union members preference in hiring. It is different from the union shop, which does not require employees to be union members as a condition of employment, but does require that they join the union or pay the equivalent of union dues within a set period of time following their hire, although this too is commonly referred to as a "closed shop" in the United Kingdom.