The new decision focused on the union organizing practice known as “salting”—whereby unions send individuals to apply for jobs with the ultimate purpose of organizing the company from within. The NLRB said that although some union salts may genuinely desire to work for a nonunion employer and to proselytize co-workers on behalf of a union, other salts clearly have no such interest and submit applications with the sole intention of generating unfair labor practice charges based on discrimination when the applications are rejected.
Additional Resources:
Toering Electric Co., 351 NLRB No. 18, 2007
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