The Closed-shop Pattern: Mid-1978

Stephen Dunn and John Gennard
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Stephen Dunn: Kingston Polytechnic
John Gennard: University of Strathclyde

Chapter 2 in The Closed Shop in British Industry, 1984, pp 13-24 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In Britain the definition and identification of the closed shop is not a simple matter. Definition may depend on the purpose for which it is needed. For example, some employers and trade unionists prefer to regard a closed shop as 100 per cent compulsory union membership in order that an arrangement with which they are associated might avoid the stigma of being classified as a closed shop. This may be true where certain employees — existing non-members or those with a conscientious or religious objection to union membership — are allowed to remain outside the union. Our own definition is wider and generally accepted since it follows McCarthy’s view that a closed shop is ‘a situation in which employees come to realise that a particular job is only to be obtained or retained if they become and remain members of one of a specified number of trade unions’.1 This, we feel, allows us to include arrangements in which not every employee comes to such a realization. In short, 100 per cent membership is not a prerequisite for a practice to be included under the closed-shop label.

Keywords: Labour Relation; Industrial Relation; Union Membership; Bargaining Unit; Total Workforce (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17532-1_2

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