Legal Opinion
Hartman Brothers Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 6, 2002No. 01-1321, 01-1549PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
“Salting” is the practice whereby a union inserts its organizers into some employer’s workforce in the hope that they will be able to organize it. Though salts do not intend to remain in the company’s employ after the plant or other facility is organized, the Supreme Court has held that they are employees within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act, implying that to fire or refuse to hire otherwise qualified salts merely because they are salts is an unfair labor practice because on the assumption that they are qualified the employer’s motive must be the…
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