Meaning of closed shop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A business or industrial establishment whose employees are required to be labor union members as a precondition to employment.
2. A facility that runs programs on behalf of others, giving them no oversight over execution but merely returning the output at the end.
   historical

Examples

“[...] about 90 per cent of the locomotive staff belong to one trade union and 10 per cent to another smaller one or to none, for there is no such thing in Switzerland as a "closed shop".”

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