2. Salting and the Courts Use Cornell’s law pages or OYEZ to locate a major 1995 Supreme Court case in which the Court overturned an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals holding and affirmed an earlier opinion by the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB had ruled that a worker may be a company’s ‘‘employee’’ as defined by the NLRA and may also be paid by a union to organize the company’s workers.

National Labor Relations Board v. Town & Country Electric, Inc., 516 U.S. 85 (1995)

Check with your college or university library to see if you can locate ‘‘Union Salting: Reactions and Rulings since Town and Country,’’ an article by Dr. Cory Fine published in the Journal of Labor Research in 2002.