February 15, 2013
#Sidney's Picks: Cablevision Mass Firings; FreedomWorks' Faux Clinton/Panda Sex Tape; and the Calorie Detective
- It takes a special kind of scumbag boss to keep workers waiting for 40 minutes when they took advantage of his “open door policy” to ask about their union, and then fire them for not working. That’s what Cablevision VP Rick Levesque did to workers in Canarsie.
- Levesque reportedly allowed some of the Cablevision techs to drift back to work before inviting a select group of union activists to meet with him and firing them on the spot.
- The conservative group FreedomWorks produced an attack video of a fake Hillary Clinton having fake sex with a fake panda, David Corn reports. An odd choice of themes, given that Clinton, sex, and pandas are all more popular than FreedomWorks.
- New York chain restaurants are required to post calorie counts, but the authorities don’t check for accuracy. Filmmaker Casey Neistat puts their claims to the test.