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A closed shop is an�arrangement whereby a place of employment requires current membership in a specific union as a condition of employment. While initially permitted, the practice of closed shops has since been outlawed by the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.�

In response to the Taft-Hartley Act, many unions pushed for closed shops with advocacy for the similar union shops. In a union shop, joining a union is not a prerequisite for employment; however, any employee who fails to join the union and/or pay union dues within a given number of days after hiring will be terminated.�

In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. AFSCME that union shop arrangements are themselves illegal. �The Court concluded that the practice of states and public-sector unions collecting agency fees from nonconsenting employees was a violation of the First Amendment, and that no further agency fees or other forms of payment to a public-sector union could be collected, nor could attempts be made to collect such payments from employees without their consent.�