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ANNOUNCING THE LOCAL 1442 2009 SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS WINNERS
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Add to Your Health, Add to Your Savings . . . . . .
Attention Indemnity PPO Medical Plan Participants - this Local and the Fund Office have been receiving calls from members asking, “How can I get more money into my Health Reimbursement Account?” read more
Safety Alert
Recently, an 18-year-old member of UFCW Local No. 700 suffered a brutal injury. Her right hand was amputated while cleaning a HOBART meat grinder (Model #4632A) at Kroger in Wabash, Indiana. read more
Soccer Discounts for Local 1442 Members
 
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Discounts on Theme Parks & Movies for Local 1442 Members
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The first definitive guide to LA's labor unions, labor products and labor-friendly services - now available.
LA Labor 411 is a one-stop resource designed for people who want to buy union-made goods and services, an important factor for those committed to rebuilding the American middle class.
Employee Free Choice Act
Would you give two 'clicks' to turn Sen. Feinstein around on Employee Free Choice?
Find out how
Employee Free Choice Act is overdue - read more
See the Employee Free Choice Ad featuring UFCW members
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More resources:
American Rights at Work
UFCW TV
Cervical Cancer Screenings For Union Women
 The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) has launched Cervical Cancer Prevention Works, labor's own cervical cancer awareness project aimed at empowering union women to be aware of how to prevent this deadly disease. January is Cervical Cancer month, and union members are encouraged to get informed and get screened for cervical cancer.
Learn more at http://www.cluw.org/cervcancer.html
UFCW Members Speak Out On Health Care Reform
UFCW members were on Capitol Hill last week to lobby their elected officials and speak out about the importance of health care reform. (watch the video)
Workers at World's Largest Pork Plant Ratify First-Ever Union Contract
Deal raises Tar Heel workers’ wages and brings up benefits and
working conditions to union standards. read more
Obama introduces Judge Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Justice nominee
Learn more
Thousands of Walmart Workers Across the Country Unite to Call for a Voice in the Workplace
New Video Highlights Intimidation, Anti-Worker Tactics Associates Face from America’s Largest Private Employer. read more
Latest Union News
Ralphs Trial Stunner: All Defendants Acquitted
Job Losses Accelerated in June
Labor secretary on job loss: 'We inherited this'
Smithfield's Tar Heel workers ratify first-ever union contract
Panel slams U.S. over immigration raid tactics
Solis helps kick off United We Serve in L.A.
Solis Confirmed as Obama’s Labor Secretary
Read More:
Bloomberg.com
Change to Win
AFL-CIO Blog
AFL-CIO and Change to Win Unions Call for United Labor Front
Union presidents from a dozen major unions, plus leaders from the AFL-CIO and Change to Win, met Wednesday to discuss ways to create a united labor movement to effectively take on the challenges facing working Americans. Talks could lead to the reuniting of AFL-CIO and Change to Win unions, which split in 2005.
"The goal of the meeting is to create a unified labor movement that can speak and act nationally on the critical issues facing working Americans," the labor leaders said in a joint statement. "While we represent the largest labor unions, we recognize that unity requires broad participation."
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 BOTHERING TO KNOW
When you are affected from actions by your employer do you “bother” to find out what your rights are? Unfortunately most members don’t – they evidently accept their fate without calling their Union to “check-in and check-out” what their rights are given their circumstances.
Recently Vons has laid-off and reduced in classification (Food Clerks to GM Clerks or Courtesy Clerks) close to seventy of our members, yet, very few have called to discuss their circumstances let alone their seniority rights and find out what are Von’s contractual requirements to reinstate them either from lay-off or from demotion before they hire new employees off the street.
Some tips you should “bother to know about” are as follows:
- If you are laid-off file for unemployment benefits immediately! Do it on-line at www.edd.ca.gov – Do not try to call the unemployment office because they are overwhelmed and will not answer calls at this time. Don’t procrastinate there is a week waiting period where you get nothing! If you wait four weeks to apply your unemployment payments are not retroactive.
- If you are laid-off or demoted to a lower classification you have recall rights back to that former classification before any new employee can be hired in your place.
- If you are demoted for any length of time (30-90 days) call our dues department to have your dues “reduced”.
- If you don’t respond within 96 hours after receiving a certified or registered letter to your home “recalling” you, then, you loose your recall rights! Be sure your employer has your current home address.
- If you are demoted from a Clerk to a Courtesy Clerk and have previously signed up for health coverage for yourself and family you may have that same coverage continued through September 30th, 2009 with possible extensions because Courtesy Clerks are entitled to single coverage only!
- If you were demoted and you were a full-time Clerk you have recall rights back to that higher classification as a full-time employee.
- If you were laid-off were you given an opportunity to exercise your seniority to “bump” out another less senior employee within the district and keep your job?
- If you were a GM Clerk enjoying the higher Sunday Premium, which you lost on promotion to Food Clerk, have you regained the higher Sunday Premium on your demotion to GM Clerk?
As you can see it can certainly pay off for you when you are “Bothering to Know”.
Enjoy the quotations
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings. "
 "Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world. "
"Character cannot be developed
in ease and quiet. Only through
experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success
achieved."
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no
safer in the long run than
exposure."
"Many persons have a wrong
Idea of what constitutes true
happiness. It is not attained
through self-gratification but
through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
--Helen Keller |
