Toronto’s Inside City Workers Vote to Strike, Unless Deal Reached by Saturday
If a contract negotiation is unsuccessful, Toronto’s inside workers will join 2,300 striking library workers, and yes, maybe piano tuners too
On Tuesday, the inside workers’ union, CUPE Local 79, gave notice that its members were willing to go on strike as early as Saturday. Toronto’s 23,000 inside workers overwhelmingly voted in favour of a strike mandate, unless a contract is successfully negotiated with the city.
The whole inside workers label can be confusing, but it includes city child care workers, nurses, janitors, parks and recreation staff and ambulance dispatchers.
Read More: Toronto’s Library Workers on Strike After Talks Fail
Members of CUPE Local 79 have complained that the city has been trying to deny them their basic employment rights.
Sharing Facebook Passwords with Employers – Becoming a Thing, or a Breach of Privacy?
Eduardo does not approve. He just wants his shares back.
To screen job applicants, some companies and government agencies are asking future employees for their Facebook and social networking passwords during the hiring process.
The Associated Press is reporting that while questions, and eyebrows, have been raised over the legality of this hiring practice, Illinois and Maryland are looking to pass a law which would forbid public agencies from asking for access to a hiree or employee’s social network. Still, Justin Bassett, a New York statistician featured in the AP profile, encountered this privacy probe when applying for a job, and declined.
I mean, sure – have a company social networking policy and do a quick Googling. That makes sense. If someone, nowadays, does not have enough media savvy to keep debaucherous personal habits under lock and key – or off the internet – than maybe they are not the right candidate for the job. But using someone’s privacy as a character witness seems like a definite breach.
The Hunger Games Outsells Any Non-Sequel in Advanced Ticket Sales
Wow! It may open in two days, or, well, 41 hours if you plan to go to a midnight screening (what, like you’re not counting down?), but The Hunger Games has already outsold any non-sequel in advanced ticket sales.
Fandango, the web’s biggest online ticket distributor, announced Tuesday that the movie has sold more advanced tickets on its website than any other original movie. By the end of Wednesday, the site is expecting to have sold out of more than 2,000 available show times. If this wasn’t enough hype, The Hunger Games also accounts for 92 per cent of Fandango’s daily ticketing sales.
According to Fandango rep Harry Medved, the movie could conceivably outsell some on the all-time advanced ticket-sellers list, including the last Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
Crazy. The movie, already expected to shatter box office records for a likely franchise starter – after all, there are three books, and Academy Award winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy is already committed to pen the sequel – but just how big will it get? Bigger than Aquaman? What if there’s a blackout in the Valley?
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Joanna Adams writes the Morning Cable, and lots more, for Toronto Standard. Follow her on Twitter at †@nowstarringTO.
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