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A hot shop is a business which treats its employees that bad, that it's almost about to explode. It is a slang of trade unions to describe one of two cases: 1. Without the need of professional organizers the anger of the employees has reached such high levels that they have organized themselves, and are about to sign up for union membership. 2. The only thing that keeps this business running is the bad pay, unpaid overtime hours, and sacrifice of the workers.
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