| The closed shop was outlawed in local and public employment, and public employees were restricted in the unions they could join. |
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| Football must avoid the kind of closed shop mentality that permeates other sports. |
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| They are operating like a closed shop and yet you cannot operate without them. |
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| On Saturday it will become the longest strike, surpassing the 29-day strike in 1953 that established a closed shop. |
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| The way in which these people are selected and appointed is almost a closed shop and I can't see that changing. |
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| Bosses could be forced to sack anyone who did not toe the union line because of the closed shop system. |
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| This form of empowerment could be encouraged elsewhere but to them the Fairtrade Foundation is a closed shop with them firmly on the outside. |
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| In a sport utterly dominated by a handful of nations, it's pretty much a closed shop. |
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| Despite all its talk of diversity, big media in American tends to be something of a closed shop. |
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| The brains trust surrounding the leader is a closed shop, trickier to join than the Bullingdon. |
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| However, the selectors and captains have not done enough to reassure young bowlers that the Australian side is not a closed shop. |
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| The boatmen deny the charge that they preside over a closed shop, which the new licence will finally open up. |
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| A dressing room following a game is a closed shop, unwelcoming to outsiders. |
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| The reciprocal obligations of aristocratic gift exchange neutralized the monopolistic imperatives of the closed shop. |
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| As he pointed out, the media tends to be a closed shop, lacking ethnic and ideological diversity. |
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| Some died a natural death, others have closed shop because they can survive. |
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| In any sport the teams at the bottom stagnate if you have a closed shop. |
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| In the case of the Bahamas, the government is a closed shop. |
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| The Pharmaceutical Society last night rejected a claim that it is operating a closed shop by stopping a new pharmacy degree course for 50 students going ahead. |
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| It took away the remaining vestiges of legal support for the closed shop which, while not rendering the closed shop unlawful, made it virtually impossible to operate. |
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| Outside of the skilled trades, unions had difficulty monopolizing the labor supply, and strikes were often a necessary tactic in gaining union recognition or a closed shop. |
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| There are no restrictions to practice in this market, there is no closed shop and there are no cosy arrangements whereby there are limited panel numbers. |
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| He is said to have shredded the letters, and the sources claimed that the national team was now a closed shop where new people and ideas were not welcome. |
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| To those on the right who argue that that is a return to compulsory unionism or a replica of the closed shop system in America, I say that that is total nonsense. |
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| He alienated his workforce, and when they unionised and campaigned for the closed shop, he destroyed the union during a 13-week strike and lockout. |
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| We put forward the perspective of a closed shop at these meetings. |
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| Online gaming, at least with shooters, is pretty much a closed shop. |
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| Closed shop No, says Kealey because science, however it is funded, is always a closed shop. |
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| It is illegal to claim to be a journalist if you are not a member of this closed shop, which is largely run by pro-government journalists. |
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| The proposed solution based on the Schengen model would run the risk of becoming a closed shop. |
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| A professional public service does not need to be, and should not be, a closed shop. |
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| As a point of logic, if the right to sign a yellow dog contract is to be denied, the right of an employer to agree to a closed shop contract with a union should be denied too. |
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| Right now it seems as though it's just a closed shop, and I'm sure most of the fishermen out here feel there should be a fair and equitable way to obtain whatever access to the resource is available to them. |
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| Worldwide, as in virtually every other industry, many companies are reducing their workforces, scaling back planned projects, and since the research of this paper, two companies have closed shop in Canada. |
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| The demand for illustrations was growing, and we were working in a kind of closed shop where we experimented with the potential of this new media. |
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| It is important that the membership appointment process is seen to be fair and equitable by all stakeholders and that the false impression that it is a closed shop controlled by NRC be dispelled. |
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| In 2007, it closed shop and reappeared in tabloid form, and has been appreciated for its brand of investigative journalism. |
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| If my arguments were so weak that I was afraid to give people easy access to other web sites demonstrating the contrary, I would have closed shop a long time ago! |
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| In 2009, with work drying up, he closed shop. |
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| And HealthWest Inc. and SkinKlinic have closed shop. |
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| Other companies have shed employees or closed shop altogether. |
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| We also saw it as important that the Research Council, when it starts work on 1 January 2007, should not become a closed shop, in other words, that it should be open and transparent and work in an open and transparent way. |
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| But what we can do is become involved in disciplinary procedures externally in order to make it clear that this is not some sort of closed shop but a regulated procedure conducted objectively in order to examine accusations. |
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| You heard from Shaw, I think, on the previous panel that Canada is a small market to begin with, and the rest of the world in terms of capital markets has pretty much decided that in telecom, we're a closed shop. |
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| In the wider context of public administration and governance, the analysis must be extended, because the system for primary health is not a closed shop or system on its own. |
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| However the new plant in Wapping did not have a closed shop contract. |
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| This was unpopular with Championship clubs because there was no fair and easy way for them to get promoted into Super League and it was seen as a closed shop. |
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