Definitions for "Union Shop"
Keywords:  hire, bargaining, join, workers, shop
A form of union security that requires employees to join the union, within a certain time after they are hired or after a compulsory-unionism contract is executed, and to maintain their membership as a condition of employment.
Agreements stipulating that a company's new employees must join a union within a certain number of days from being hired in order to keep their jobs.
a company allowed to hire nonunion workers on the condition that they will join the union within a specified time