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noun
An agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees, as a condition of employment, not to be a member of a labor union whilst employed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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History
So called because such agreements were thought to reduce employees to the status of yellow dogs (“worthless things”).
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