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Salting is alabor union tactic involving the act of getting a job at a specific workplace with the intent oforganizing a union.^[1] A person so employed is called a "salt".

The tactic is often discussed in theUnited States because under US law unions may be prohibited from talking with workers in the workplace and salting is one of the few legal strategies that allow union organizers to talk with workers. Both theKnights of Labor and theIndustrial Workers of the World employed salts.^[2]

InToering Elec. Co., 351 N.L.R.B. No. 18 (Sept. 29, 2007), theNational Labor Relations Board (NLRB) concluded that workers in the United States can be fired if they are believed to not be "genuinely interested" in obtaining the job. This category includes salting.^[3][4]This decision was later superseded by a 2018 decision by theEighth Circuit Court of Appeals that further modified the criteria for when the NLRB can find that an employer violated the law by firing a salt.^[5][6]

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