The plant where Ima and Boyd work is located in Illinois, which does not have a right-to-work law. If the workers approve the union as their bargaining agent, Boyd wants to get the greatest union membership that is legally possible. Boyd is likely to push for a(n)
A) closed shop.
B) agency shop.
C) union shop.
D) sweatshop.

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Although a closed shop used to be the strongest type of union security, the Taft-Hartley Act declared this type of arrangement illegal in 1947. The strongest union security arrangement that is permitted under the Taft-Hartley Act is a union shop. In a union shop, workers do not have to belong to a union before they are hired, but they do have to join the union within a specified time to keep their jobs. Union shops are legal in all states except those that have passed right-to-work laws.

The Plant Where Ima and Boyd Work Is Located in Illinois