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Article

Publication Date

10-9-2010

Abstract

The legitimacy of union salting campaigns has been debated frequently and bitterly over the last several years Salts the agents of these campaigns are professional union organizers who apply for and sometimes obtain ÔÇô often surreptitiously ÔÇô employment with nonunion employers in furtherance of union objectives Although recent decisions of the National Labor Relations Board NLRB under the influence of the W Bush administration have erected administrative and legal roadblocks to the conduct of salting campaigns it is likely that the ÔÇ£Obama BoardÔÇØ will revisit the issues surrounding them This article argues that salts have served a legitimate function by exposing unlawful antiunion employment practices Developing more fully a fleeting discussion in a recent NLRB case the article explores whether salts' aggressive charge filing activity at the NLRB represents a permissible form of administrative private attorney general mechanism in aid of increased enforcement of the NLRA Answering the question in the affirmative the article contends that the NLRB should not reject salting activity on ÔÇ£moralÔÇØ grounds or based upon an overly restrictive view of the nature of union organizing

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