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Discover LudwigThe phrase "agency shop" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in labor relations to refer to a workplace where employees are not required to join a union but must pay union dues or fees.
Example: "The company operates as an agency shop, meaning that all employees must contribute to the union, even if they choose not to join."
Alternatives: "union shop" or "closed shop".
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agency shop
noun
A place of employment in which a union receives dues or the equivalent for all employees excluding management, and bargains for all such employees whether or not they are members of the union.
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That arrangement is known as an agency shop.
Ms. Rosenstein said the museum was being anti-union for rejecting the agency shop demand.
Agency shop, place of employment where workers are required to pay union dues regardless of whether they are union members.
"Publicly and to the people on strike, they are saying agency shop is not a big deal," Mr. Batterman said.
Maida Rosenstein, president of Local 2110, said an agency shop was needed to strengthen a historically weak union.
I think the people on strike do not want to be on strike to support an agency shop".
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Agency shops are common in the school environment in many places.
The legality of agency shops varies widely from country to country, and such agreements are generally highly regulated in developed countries.
Lacking a union shop or a closed shop, workplaces are defined as either agency shops (which require employees to contribute funds equal to union dues but not join the union) or open shops (which require neither membership nor dues payment).
What Lumbreras and Ip say they offer is a system that is more automated than their competitors, which the two said act more like traditional advertising agency shops.
He went on to challenge the basic agency-shop structure, calling it "an anomaly".
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