a factory, office, or other business establishment in which a union, chosen by a majority of the employees, acts as representative of all the employees in making agreements with the employer, but in which union membership is not a condition of employment.
Origin
1895-1900
Related forms
open-shop, adjective
anti-open-shop, noun
British Dictionary definitions for open-shop
open shop
noun
1.
an establishment in which persons are hired and employed irrespective of their membership or nonmembership of a trade union Compare closed shop, union shop
open-shop in Culture
open shop definition
A business that employs both unionized and nonunionized labor.