The Merit Shop Philosophy
What we
stand for.
Principles that protect opportunity, reward performance, and keep competition open.
Free Enterprise
Businesses and people should have the freedom to compete, grow, and succeed.
Open Competition
Work should be awarded based on value, performance, and qualification.
Opportunity for All
Every person should have a fair opportunity to work, learn, and advance.
Fairness at Work
Employers and employees share responsibility for fair compensation and quality performance.
Civic Responsibility
Industry leaders should participate in the decisions shaping their businesses and communities.
Skill should open doors. Performance should earn opportunity. Merit should move people forward.
Official ABC Philosophy
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We believe in the system of free enterprise and open competition.
We believe employees and employers should have the right to determine wages and working conditions through either individual or collective bargaining, as they choose, within the boundaries of the law.
We believe the law should protect the right of employees to work regardless of race, color, creed, age, sex, national origin, or membership or non-membership in a labor organization. We believe work opportunities should be made available to all legal residents, and we support programs toward this end.
We believe the employer must have concern for the general welfare of the employee and that there must be fair compensation for work performed. At the same time, we believe the employee has an obligation to satisfactorily perform assigned work.
We believe in Utah’s Right-to-Work statute.
We believe legislation that embraces fair play for employer and employee is essential for the preservation of our free enterprise system.
We oppose violence, coercion, intimidation, and the denial of the rights of employees and employers.
We support sound legislation in the areas of workers’ compensation, safety, and unemployment compensation.
We believe monopolies or any kind of price or wage fixing, in either the public or private sector, are detrimental to our system of free enterprise.
We believe Americans can best be served by cooperation, reconciliation, and the tenets of free enterprise and democratic government. We believe business leaders can best preserve these tenets by becoming active in politics and civic affairs.
Based on the official ABC Merit Shop Philosophy ↗
ABC Utah