One unique feature our new website offers us the ability to change the feel and look. Our intent is for each style to represent our members. Do you have a photo that would represent Joint Council 42?  We will choose 6, one for each color scheme. We invite all members to submit your photo's for consideration. 

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Contrary to what some people might think— especially those who purchase smartphones with dedicated “status update” buttons—the Declaration of Independence did not proclaim that among our unalienable rights is the right to post status updates on Facebook.

However, there are limitations on what employers can do about employees who post derogatory messages about the companies for which they work, or the supervisors to whom they report. A recent flurry of activity at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) makes clear that online communications enjoy the same protections as any other protected concerted activity, and that the NLRB is ready and willing to take up the cause of those employees disciplined because of what they posted on Facebook or tweeted on Twitter. As a result, any employer rolling out a social media policy or issuing discipline in response to a social media post needs to understand the rules of the virtual road.

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Whether there is or isn’t a grocery strike, we can put Walmart on the list for the grocery companies’ reasons for trying to slash wages and benefits on the unionized grocery clerks. Corporate greed, of course, tops the list, billions in profits just doesn’t seem to be enough. Like all the other companies in the country, lowering wages, making the employees pay for benefits, and breaking unions seems to be the order of the day. Whatever the grocery companies wring out of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, representing the grocery store employees, you can be guaranteed these same companies will come after us next. Our drivers and warehouse people will be next in line to fight off the rash of union busting. Just keep in mind that the Teamsters, as well as every other union, is under attack from Corporate America. Walmart will, of course, try to cash in on any strike to sell more groceries. Fortunately our members do a great job of educating people about Walmart and shopping Costco and our other union grocery stores Let’s see if these grocery stores appreciate our loyalty. READ MORE