As most of you know, I'm not much of a Facebook guy. We are making all sorts of changes to that page soon, but you can always follow me on Twitter @talkmaster. Anyway, as social networking spreads throughout our culture, more and more people are taking to the Internet - particularly Facebook - to vent about their jobs, bosses, co-workers, etc. Here's the scenario currently making national headlines ...

The dispute started when American Medical Response asked Dawnmarie Souza to complete an incident report following a customer complaint about her and she was denied representation by the local workers union, the Teamsters Local 443, according to the National Labor Relations Board complaint. Two superiors threatened Souza after she requested union representation, the complaint added, and later that day she took to her Facebook page to criticize her supervisor with other colleagues.

American Medical Response fired Souza a few weeks later.

In response, the Teamsters filed an unfair labor practice charge at the NLRB regional office in Hartford last January. The office opened an investigation into the charge and ultimately filed a complaint against American Medical Response, marking the first time the agency has argued that employees' conversations about work conditions, known as "concerted activity," is protected on social networks.

What do you think, folks? Should social networking about your job be protected by the National Labor Relations Act?