Pubdate: Tue, 22 Feb 2005
Source: St. Petersburg Times (FL)
Copyright: 2005 St. Petersburg Times
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Author: James McGill

ON SMOKING, EMPLOYERS GO TOO FAR

Re: Smoking and workers.

I'll never forget, back in the early 1980s, a sign carried by a striking 
auto worker during a time when Ronald Reagan thought it would be a great 
idea for all workers to be drug-tested. It read, "Pay me 24 hours a day - 
then you can test me for what I do 24 hours a day."

Employers are increasingly treating employees as if they own them, on the 
job and off.

- -- James McGill, St. Pete Beach
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