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This 5 page paper focuses on the 1995 Supreme Court ruling ( in Town & Country Electric, Inc. v. NLRB) that supported the union in their fight for equal treatment in hiring. Salting is defined and discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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paid, professional union organizers are employees (Baskin PG). This question was discussed in relationship to the National Labor Relations Act and by a 9 to zero vote, the Court answered
that question with a resounding "yes " (PG). To many, the decision seemed innocuous or at least not very significant. But when one analyzes exactly what happened during this day
in 1995, it appears that the decision was rather important. In fact, it was this decision that gave rise to the organizing tactic known as salting (PG). What happened in
the Town & Country case is that a group of union organizers decided to apply for work at non-union companies; it was no secret that they desired to get into
these companies and stir up trouble (Baskin PG). Some of the firms realized this and refused to hire these union salts and there was much discussion about a conflict of
interest, or the fact that one cannot be "employed" by a union and be hired by another company. But in the end the Supreme Court favored the union. The
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit initially heard the case and found that professional union agents did have a conflict of interest and so they could not be
treated as employees at the companies for which they had applied (Baskin PG). Other courts were split on the issue and so the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.
The final decision would allow that these applicants could not be discriminated against, nor should employers be held accountable for retaining unproductive workers (PG). In other words, while employers could
not discriminate against the applicants who were directed by a salting campaign, they were not obligated to put up with unproductive workers either. Thus, if union members did not work
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