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No end in sight to Winter Club lockout Brent Richter brichter@nsnews.com
NORTH Shore Winter Club maintenance employees have now been locked out of their workplace for more than 90 days and there’s no end in sight for the labour dispute.
“(Management) flatly refused to return to the bargaining table so there’s not any progress at this point so we’re going to continue to escalate our activity at the club here,” said John Strohmaier, Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 398 representative. That means soliciting the help of the B.C. Federation of Labour and other groups to support the locked out workers, including Donald Fehr, executive director of the NHL Players’ Association. See Fehr page 3
NEWS photo Mike Wakefield
MORE than 90 days since contract negotiations failed and they were locked out of work, North Shore Winter Club maintenance workers picket outside the club. Scan this photo with the Layar app to see video from the scene.
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District staff put out a press release Wednesday afternoon informing the public of an “unauthorized access” to a server containing personal data related to pre-authorized payment plans for taxes and utilities, and the MyDistrict municipal services portal. That server include names, addresses and bank account numbers but it does not store credit card, debit, social insurance or driver’s licence information, according to the district.
So far, it does not appear any of the information was logged or copied elsewhere, according to acting director of communications Donna Powers. “We want to get this out into the public even though we have no reason to believe that anybody’s personal information has been compromised. We want to be as transparent as possible,” Powers said. The breach appears to have come from a weak spot in the security of the Cold Fusion software the district licenses from Adobe through Surrey-based provider Tempest Development. District staff shut down their server on July 22 after learning that a similar problem had arisen with the District of Maple
Ridge and the City of Abbotsford, both of which use Cold Fusion for similar services. Adobe provided a software patch to fix the security hole, but vendors should have been made aware, said Donna Crestwell, the district’s manager of information technology services, similar to how auto manufacturers would be expected to issue a recall notice when a widespread problem is found in a production run of vehicles. Now the district has hired a software security expert at $2,000 a day to audit the server and determine exactly what happened in the breach, but an early review doesn’t indicate personal data has been stolen. “They did an audit of the server and they found there had been access to the server but they couldn’t find any evidence that the personal information stored on that server had been
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THOUSANDS of West Vancouver residents who use the district’s website service to pay bills, apply for licences or do other municipal business may have had their personal information compromised.
District says data not copied in unauthorized access to server
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