Tualatin Electric, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GINSBURG.

GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

Making use of a tactic called “salting,” the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local No. 48 authorized several of its members to seek work at Tualatin Electric, a nonunion electrical contractor, in order to advocate union membership among Tualatin’s employees and to gather information that might assist the Union in an election campaign. Tualatin discharged' one such employee, or “salt,” because of his union activity and refused to hire four other job applicants because it suspected they were…