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 Agency shop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An agency shop is a place of employment where workers must pay union dues whether they are a member of a labor union or not.
The first agency shop was established at the Ford Motor Company plant in Ontario, Canada, in 1946.
This article related to a trade or labor union is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agency_shop   (99 words)

  
 Union shop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A union shop is a place of employment where the employer may hire either labor union members or nonmembers but where nonmembers must become union members within a specified period of time or lose their jobs.
Other forms of union security include an agency fee arrangement, which requires employees to pay an agency fee, but not to join the union, and maintenance of membership, which requires those employees who are union members to maintain their membership, but does not compel non-members to join or pay dues to the union.
In addition, a check-off agreement, in which an individual employee authorizes the employer to deduct union dues from his or her paycheck unless the agreement expires or is revoked, may function as a form of union security in some circumstances, even in right-to-work states, by holding a worker to a commitment to pay dues.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Union_shop   (709 words)

  
 City of Long Beach, CA - Agency Shop
Agency Shop may be rescinded by a majority vote of all employees in the covered bargaining unit by secret ballot.
An Agency Shop means that all non-supervisory employees, as a condition of employment, must either join the Union or pay a monthly service fee to the Union for representation services.
Payment of the Agency Shop fee is a Condition of Employment and required as long as the Agency Shop fee is in place and your classification is covered under Agency Shop.
www.longbeach.gov /hr/faqs/agency_shop.asp   (920 words)

  
 ALERT
Agency shop (also known as a representation fee) is an arrangement where non-union members, who are nevertheless covered by the provisions of contracts negotiated by unions, pay a fee to the union for its representation efforts.
Before August 2002, agency shop was a mandatory topic of negotiations and school employees’ unions could collect such a fee only if they had gained this benefit at their local bargaining table.
If these conditions are met, PERC is then to issue an order to the public employer to institute a payroll deduction for an agency shop fee from the salaries of bargaining unit employees who are not members of the union.
www.njsba.org /members_only/labor_relations/alert.htm   (305 words)

  
 T990513.TXT
As used in this chapter, "agency shop" means an arrangement that requires an employee, as a condition of continued employment, either to join the recognized employee organization, or to pay the organization a service fee in an amount not to exceed the standard initiation fee, periodic dues, and general assessments of the organization.
Notwithstanding the above, the public agency and the recognized employee organization may negotiate, and by mutual agreement provide for, an alternative procedure or procedures regarding a vote on an agency shop agreement.
Under the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, an agency shop agreement may be negotiated between a public agency and a recognized public employee organization.
www.sen.ca.gov /leginfo/BILL-6-DEC-1998/CURRENT/SB/FROM0700/SB0739/T990513.TXT   (441 words)

  
 Basic Guide to Agency Shop Agreements
An agency shop agreement is a a type of collective agreement that requires employers to deduct an agreed agency fee from the wages of workers who are not members of the trade union.
The aim of an agency shop is to ensure that non-union workers, who nevertheless benefit from the union’s bargaining efforts, make a contribution towards those efforts.
A type of collective agreement, an agency shop agreement requires employers to deduct a fee from the wages of non-union workers to ensure that non-union workers, who benefit from the union’s bargaining efforts, make a contribution towards those efforts.
www.labour.gov.za /basic_guides/bguide_display.jsp?guide_id=5889&programme_id=2671   (404 words)

  
 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
The agency shop is said to be a necessary adjunct to the principle of exclusive union representation; it is said to reduce the risk that nonunion employees will become "free riders" by fairly distributing the costs of exclusive representation; and it is said to promote the cause of labor peace in the public sector.
Hence, although a union shop denies an employee the option of not formally becoming a union member, under federal law it is the "practical equivalent" of an agency shop, NLRB v.
Among the agreement's provisions was an "agency shop" clause, requiring every teacher who had not become a Union member within 60 days of hire (or within 60 days of January 26, 1970, the effective date of the clause) to pay the Union a service charge equal to the regular dues required of Union members.
caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=431&invol=209   (14489 words)

  
 RCW 42.17.760: Agency shop fees as contributions.
A labor organization may not use agency shop fees paid by an individual who is not a member of the organization to make contributions or expenditures to influence an election or to operate a political committee, unless affirmatively authorized by the individual.
apps.leg.wa.gov /rcw/default.aspx?cite=42.17.760   (65 words)

  
 Agency Shop Law and Legal Definition - USlegalforms.com
An agency shop is a workplace where even if workers do not join the union, they must still pay the equivalent of dues to the union.
In collective bargaining agreements with an agency shop provision, nonmembers of a union are required to pay the membership fee or a representation fee for contract negotiations, administration, and grievance processing.
Under federal law, agency shop fee payers may request a refund of any part of their agency shop fee which "represents the employee's pro-rata share of expenditures in aid of activities or causes of a political or ideological nature only incidentally related to terms and conditions of employment."
www.uslegalforms.com /lawdigest/legaldefinitions.php/agency_shop.htm   (300 words)

  
 Shop Insurance from Blackfriars Insurance Brokers Ltd
Shop Insurance policies generally are arranged as a "package" insurance, that is to say that in addition to the core covers that you may require, additional cover may also be offered.
All shop insurance quotations are produced by an experienced insurance broker, who will offer a quote based upon the details you submit to us in this Statement of Needs.
Blackfriars Insurance Brokers Ltd offers shop insurance quotations for shops and business based in the UK.
www.shop-insurance-uk.co.uk   (169 words)

  
 Agency Shop Provisions
"Agency Shop" is an arrangement that requires an employee, as a condition of employment, either to join the recognized employee organization, or to pay the organization a service fee covering the cost of representation to the employee organization.
A limited exemption to the Agency Shop requirement exists for employees with bona-fide religious objections to joining or financially supporting any public employee organization.
The County of Santa Barbara has two bargaining units with "modified" Agency Shop requirements, meaning the requirement is conditioned on certain criteria.
www.sbcountyhr.org /relations/bargunits/agency.html   (158 words)

  
 LASPA, The Los Angeles Sheriff's Professional Association
Agency shop requires all funds taken by ALADS to be in held in an interest bearing escrow account and that account number should be disclosed to all affected deputies.
Some may not know but Agency shop is only good for three years and then their must be another vote of unit 611 to continue to have agency shop.
Since agency shop was passed in October 2002, we have no contract and will most likely hold on to what we have and if we are lucky, not lose pay.
www.laspa.org /news/agency_shop_updates.htm   (5366 words)

  
 RCW 41.59.100: Union security provisions — Scope — Agency shop provision, collection of dues or fees.
If an agency shop provision is agreed to, the employer shall enforce it by deducting from the salary payments to members of the bargaining unit the dues required of membership in the bargaining representative, or, for nonmembers thereof, a fee equivalent to such dues.
A collective bargaining agreement may include union security provisions including an agency shop, but not a union or closed shop.
RCW 41.59.100: Union security provisions — Scope — Agency shop provision, collection of dues or fees.
apps.leg.wa.gov /rcw/default.aspx?cite=41.59.100   (215 words)

  
 local Florists Agency, (IA). find a Agency flower shop in Iowa
Some Agency florists will offer a Agency wedding selection online others will have a way to contact them in Agency through their floral web site on find a florist, you can also just drive to their local Agency flower shop in Agency, IA to see their selection in person.
With Teleflora’s Find A Florist you can find local flower shops in Agency, IA and link directly to their Agency floral shop website to shop for Agency flowers.
Teleflora’s local Agency florists in Agency, Iowa can offer advice on the type of Agency sympathy arrangements that will be both a tasteful and appropriate way to express your condolences.
www.findaflorist.com /ia-iowa/florists/agency-florists.asp   (668 words)

  
 Providence Milwaukie nurses fight for first contract, agency shop
Nurses say whether they have agency shop will determine whether their union will be strong enough to win their other demands - an effective voice on the job, acceptable wages and benefits, and healthy nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.
More than any other issue, the nurses are insistent on having a provision in their contract known as "agency shop" - a requirement that all employees in the unit share the cost of union representation.
But management knows how significant agency shop is to the strength of the union, O'Leary added, and that's why they fight it.
www.nwlaborpress.org /2003/2-7-03OFNHP.html   (1096 words)

  
 Art and Craft Shop Insurance
Shop insurance for Arts and Craft Shops from Blackfriars Insurance Brokers Ltd working with leading UK insurance companies to offer a range of shop insurance and retail insurance policies for UK Art Shops, Artist Materials and Craft Shops.
Full details of the shop insurance cover will be provided to you with the quotation by email - if you require specimen insurance polices, these are also available to you.
We offer insurance from the panel of over 30 insurance companies that we use for shop insurance, and also from our scheme insurance arrangements.
www.blackfriarsgroup.com /shop-insurance/art_craft_shop.html   (266 words)

  
 Food Standards Agency - The end of butchers’ shop licensing
Butchers’ shop licensing is being withdrawn across the UK from the end of 2005.
Butchers’ shop licensing was introduced in England in May 2000 following a recommendation from the Pennington Group, which examined the fatal outbreak of E.coli O157 food poisoning in central Scotland in 1996.
Evaluations of the scheme conducted in England and Scotland in 2002 showed that hygiene standards in butcher shops had, on the whole, improved as a result of the initiative.
www.food.gov.uk /foodindustry/meat/meatplantsprems/butcherslicensing   (572 words)

  
 March 13, 2001
SB 739, which took effect on January 1, 2001, changes the way an “agency shop” arrangement may be established by employee associations.
  With an agency shop arrangement, employees represented by the bargaining unit are required either to join the association or to pay the association a service fee.
The City received a request for agency shop from the City Employees Association (CEA), which represents our clerical and library employees.
www.city.newport-beach.ca.us /CouncilAgendas/2001/i03-2705.htm   (335 words)

  
 Economics Interactive
An agency shop agreement requires non-union workers at a firm to pay the equivalent of union dues to the union that represents similar workers at the firm.
The Agency for International Development [AID] is an American-based organization that administers billions of dollars in aid each year to underdeveloped or developing foreign countries.
This is intended to require all workers covered by a union contract to share in the costs of collective bargaining, and prevents non-union members from free riding.
www.unc.edu /depts/econ/byrns_web/Economicae/EconomicaeA.htm   (4002 words)

  
 NJLM - A-2372 (Agency Shop)
In short, agency shop provisions are imposed upon all non-dues paying employees.
And, the previous statutory requirement for negotiation over an agency shop provision is negated.
If the PERC investigation confirms both of those presuppositions, then it must order the public employer to institute a payroll deduction of a representation fee, in lieu of dues, from the wages or salaries of every employee who is not a member of the majority representative.
www.njslom.org /ml091202.html   (213 words)

  
 El Camino Hospital negotiators still tackling agency-shop issues -- Los Altos Town Crier
Union negotiators and hospital management reported that they were unable come to agreement in two other areas, health benefits and agency shop, an issue which has proved the most difficult to resolve.
While the union now seems to agree a mediator might be necessary, it is strongly opposed to an election on agency shop.
Service employees themselves appear to be split on the issue of agency shop.
latc.com /2001/05/02/news/news6.print.html   (256 words)

  
 CAP Agency - Thrift Shop
CAP Agency Thrift Shop is located next to the CAP Agency Shakopee Office at 712 Canterbury Road South in Shakopee.
CAP Agency Thrift Shop offers gently used clothing and small household items for sale at reasonable prices in a department store atmosphere.
Proceeds from the sale of Thrift Shop merchandise support Thrift Shop operations and directly fund other CAP Agency services.
www.capagency.org /pages/thriftshop.htm   (140 words)

  
 AFSCME Resolution: Fair share
In 4 of the 17 states an agency shop is mandatory for the exclusive representative.
Such legislation should provide agency shop for exclusive representatives, and protect the rights of all public employees by requiring a payment by each individual equal to dues.
AFSCME's support for union security has included the adoption of machinery by which all persons who contribute to the financial support of the Union may obtain a rebate of that part of the individual's payment that is spent by the Union for partisan political or ideological purposes with which the individual disagrees.
www.afscme.org /about/resolute/1984/r26-060.htm   (377 words)

  
 bait shop creative agency - denver's full service creative agency
Bait Shop Creative is a full-service creative agency, providing comprehensive, turn-key marketing and public relations solutions.
The experts at your Bait Shop arm your business with the knowledge and tools to attract the fish you're after.
A good angler knows you've got to use the right bait, at the right time, in the right spot.
baitshopcreative.com   (136 words)

  
 Agency Shop
RESOLVED: That the AFL-CIO is on record supporting the passage of a permanent agency shop law for public employees in New York State.
For the past twenty years, the New York legislature has temporarily extended, for two years at a time, the requirement that all represented public employees pay an agency fee to cover all required services.
Exclusive representation requires the union to expend resources for the collective bargaining, contract administration and disciplinary protection of all employees regardless of union membership.
www.aflcio.org /aboutus/thisistheaflcio/ecouncil/ec09201997.cfm?RenderForPrint=1   (177 words)

  
 Network Down: English Photo-J Agency Closes Shop
The agency was founded 25 years ago as a collective and at the time it was seen as a new and vibrant competitor to Magnum.
Its heyday was in the early 1990s, before the emergence of the two agency giants, when its photographers were winning all the major prizes and the market for serious photojournalism was still fairly robust.
The final nail in the agency’s coffin was the collapse last month of talks with a potential overseas buyer from Holland.
www.pdnonline.com /pdn/newswire/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002115102   (594 words)

  
 Unprincipled Virtue : An Inquiry Into Moral Agency - shop.derkeiler.com Product Guide
Nomy has taken a realistic approach to the question of moral agency and brought a new clarity to the field that should shake us free of dulling traditional assumptions.
It would be an injustice to summarize the book into its main points, but the main points are 1) Autonomy isn't particularly useful for thinking about morality (this may not be a big surprise to non-Kantians), so we're better off just going straight to the substance...
Her carefully examined examples and precisely drawn conclusions set a standard rarely reached in works of its type.
shop.derkeiler.com /products/asinsearch_0195179765   (280 words)

  
 Welsh Development Agency, Contract Shop - Sequence
The Welsh Development Agency (WDA) Local Supplier Development Programme (LSDP) and "Contract Shop" website were established to promote inter-trading between SME's (Small to Medium Enterprises) and to encourage business growth in Wales.
Against stiff European competition Sequence were contracted to deliver the OJEU (Official Journal of the European Union) advertised and European Union funded programme to provide Marketing and Promotion services for the LSDP that included the complete re-design and development of the Contract Shop website.
The brief for the website element of the contract was challenging, with the new site having to be live by May for formal launch in June 2005, able to offer at least 99.9% uptime along with seamless integration in to both the WDA's Energy sector database and National Procurement portal (the Sequence developed) Sell2Wales.
www.sequence.co.uk /1509.html?printpage=1   (336 words)

  
 What is the difference between fair share and agency shop?
Agency Shop is the term in the law, but Fair Share is the everyday term.
What is the difference between fair share and agency shop?
HR > FAQS > Collective Bargaining > Regarding Agency Shop (Fair Share)
www.hr.ucdavis.edu /FAQS/Collective_Bargaining/001/001a   (70 words)

  
 Superior Court Employees Vote to Create Agency Shop
Three Los Angeles Superior Court employee units, including the one that represents the court’s research attorneys, have approved an “agency shop” measure, meaning that all employees represented by those units in collective bargaining must either join the union or pay a fee.
Superior Court Employees Vote to Create Agency Shop
Karleen George of District Council 36 of the Association of Federal, State, County and Municipal Employees said the unit representing the recently unionized research lawyers voted 69 percent to 31 percent, the court clerks 67 percent to 32 percent, and the professional unit 75 percent to 25 percent.
www.metnews.com /articles/shop120301.htm   (219 words)

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