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A business in which union and nonunion workers are employed. A business in which union membership is not a condition of securing or maintaining employment.

The term open shop is frequently used to imply that the operator of this type of shop is, in effect, exercising discrimination against trade unions and hampering their advancement through the employment of nonunion employees.

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labor open			And we see it now with the so-called Responsible Employer Ordinance, which deters open-shop contractors from bidding for public work. Union shops shouldn't have a monopoly by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) He added that the Newspaper Guild has signed open-shop contracts with newspapers in other cities and states. Is the Post-Dispatch only pro-union for its readers? by Israel, Benjamin / St. Louis Journalism Review Some of the union-inspired state provisions add to construction costs generally, but Worcester's REO seems tailored to give unfair advantage to union general contractors and subcontractors while deterring open-shop contractors from submitting bids. Rescind REO; City pays for anti-competitive bidding ordinance by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)			open to debate open to discussion open to dispute open to doubt open to error open to objection open to proof open to question open to suggestion open to suggestions open to suspicion open to the public open to the vision open to various interpretations open to view open up Open-End Contract Open-End Credit Open-End Mortgage open-ended open-handed open-handedness open-minded open-mindedness open-mouthed open-shop opened openhanded openhandedness openhearted opening Opening a judgment opening argument opening of negotiations opening statement openly openminded openmindedness openness opera operate operate jointly operating operating company operating expenses operation Operation of law operational operational before operative operative with respect to the past			Open-Ocean Deep Convection Open-outcry open-packed structure open-panel HMO open-phase protection open-phase relay Open-pit mine Open-pit mining Open-pit mining open-pit quarry open-plan Open-plan classroom open-plan educational building Open-plan office Open-plan office Open-plan office Open-plan office Open-Plus-Closed-Loop Open-Point Expanding open-pollinated Open-reel open-riser stair open-set speech recognition Open-Shell Coupled-Cluster Method Open-Shell Coupled-Cluster with Single and Double Excitations Open-Shell Perturbation Theory Open-Shell Restricted Self-Consistent Field Open-Shell Restricted-Hartree-Fock open-shop Open-Short-Load Open-Short-Load-Thru open-side planer open-side tool block open-source open-source Open-source (software) Open-Source Bloomberg Box Open-Source Character Recognition Open-source culture Open-source intelligence Open-source intelligence Open-Source Knowledge Management Open-source license Open-Source Linux-Based VPN Open-source movement Open-Source Operating System Open-Source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol Open-source search engine Open-source search engine Open-source search engine Open-source search engines Open-source search engines Open-source search engines Open-source software Open-Source Speech Recognition Initiative Open-sourcing open-space index open-space structure open-stope method

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