Vivian Funk

Government oversight lawyer, union leader, clean air advocate.
*Posts are my own opinions and are not legal advice.

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID ‘Airborne.’ Safety laws are being sidestepped. One doctor’s nightmare shows how health-care workers pay the price, by Joe Vipond, Dick Zoutman, @smbilodeau https://t.co/g0yezlIryk via @TheTyee

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

A Polish dance group, Fair Play Crew, drew global attention by recreating on stage the stiff and synchronized movements of 1980s fighting video games, such as the classic International Karate.

I've seen this so many times, still cracks me up 😂

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

Too Soon To Revisit Masks Again Say People Revisiting Being Sick Again

[CN Tower / Tour CN @TourCNTower]

Tonight the #CNTower will be lit teal for International Long COVID Awareness Day / Ce soir, la #TourCN sera illuminée en bleu sarcelle à l'occasion de la Journée internationale de sensibilisation à la COVID longue

[Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy]

Ford government says more office space for returning civil servants unnecessary - says they can all set up offices in school portables and hospital hallways like regular folks.
https://t.co/8TDhy4EB15

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

Slashing grants & pushing students into more debt is a direct attack on their future.

If students are deterred from applying for higher education, the system is clearly broken.

Tell the Premier: Hands off our #OSAP! https://t.co/1lwwUMgAjb #onpoli
https://t.co/HKJUokGIkH

[🎒Joanna Teglund✊😷🍉Human life is sacred @JoannaTeglund]

The convenient lie that children will be fine, amplified by the media, was manufactured in Sweden, based on a fraudulent study by Jonas Ludvigsson, a Swedish paediatrician who signed the Great Barrington Declaration. No one in history has so many lives on his conscience.
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[PSAC-AFPC @psac_afpc]

The only clear winners of PM Carney’s in-office mandate? The bed bugs in federal buildings.

Telling workers to leave personal items at home and carry their things in garbage bags isn’t a plan. It’s a punchline.

https://t.co/HpiiLAHh0i

[Breathe Safe Air @safe_breathe]

🎉 Win a free CO2 monitor! 🎉

I am very happy to announce that I will be giving away another two monitors this week in collaboration with @airspothealth!

To enter, just repost this post and reply (to this post) with your answer to the question below!

How do you intend to use the AirSpot CO2 map? (If you haven't heard about this yet, don't worry! I'll introduce it in the comments)

We will also give away a second monitor, so to double your chances of winning, please read the comments!

[Vivian Funk @VivFunk]

@safe_breathe @airspothealth I would the map to improve community and union member awareness of the importance of IAQ.

[PSAC-AFPC @psac_afpc]

PM Carney’s government will need to spend millions fixing up pest-infested, falling-apart federal buildings just to force workers back to the office.

All while cutting jobs and calling it “saving money.” That’s not fiscal discipline. It’s hypocrisy.

[CAPE - ACEP @CAPE_ACEP]

We look forward to MP Fanjoy and others pushing back and ultimately saving Canadians the $40 billion dollars over ten years it had projected when the Liberals promised to turn more office spaces into much-needed housing instead.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Oh, be careful, Merriam-Webster, lest we suffer vertigo from the dizzying heights of our lexical ground.

[The G.L.O.A.T. @LakeSuperior]

Hey dumdums, cold weather does not negate climate change.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

LAKE SUPERIOR, GREATEST LAKE OF ALL-TIME.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

These authors wanted to know whether mothers face discrimination in hiring, even when they are equally qualified as other applicants.

So they ran two experiments.

First, a lab experiment: participants evaluated pairs of identical job applicants who differed only in parental status.

Then, a real-world audit study: they sent 1,200+ job applications to real employers for entry- and mid-level jobs.

They randomized whether applicants were:
– Mothers (based on serving on the PTA)
– Childless women (they were listed as volunteering in a non-parent specific role)
– Fathers (based on serving on the PTA)
– Childless men (they were listed as volunteering in a non-parent specific role)

All applicants had identical qualifications.

Then they tracked evaluations, salary recommendations, and employer callbacks.

They found that:

Mothers were rated as less competent and less committed than equally qualified childless women.

Mothers were held to stricter standards, offered lower salaries, and were far less likely to be hired or promoted.

In the field experiment, real employers called back childless women at more than twice the rate of mothers.

Fathers, by contrast, faced no penalty and sometimes received a bonus.

Bottom line:
The “motherhood penalty” is real, causal, and driven by discrimination, not differences in ability.

As the authors put it:
“Giving evidence of being a mother leads to discrimination against mothers in hiring and pay.”

[Vivian Funk @VivFunk]

@EmJayNabuurs I'm so sorry MJ - I hope kiddo feels better soon and that you and the rest of your household can dodge it :(

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Enjoying the weekend? Thank a union — and Frances Perkins.

[Al Haddrell @ukhadds]

Presenteeism: the act of coming to work while sick.

This isn’t a virtue. If you come to work ill, you are not a hero. You’re an assh*le.

[..ღ..Midtown Toronto Pedestrian🇨🇦..ღ.. @TorontoViewer]

@mryoung151

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

People are more productive when they work from home.