Salt (union Organizing)
Salting is a labor union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ... tactic involving the act of getting a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing a union. A person so employed is called a "salt". The tactic is often discussed in the United 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 the Knights of Labor and the Industrial Workers of the World employed salts. The IWW continues to use salts, especially in their Starbucks Workers Campaign. In ''Toering Elec. Co., 351 N.L.R.B. No. 18 (Sept. 29, 2007)'', the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) concluded that workers in the United States can be fired ...
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Labor Union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits (such as holiday, health care, and retirement), improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing