To All BLET Local Chairmen UP Southern Region
CLEVELAND, October 31 — In an order issued earlier today, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has temporarily stayed implementation of a Department of Transportation regulation that would have required direct observation of urine specimen donation in all return-to-duty and follow-up drug tests, which was to take effect tomorrow.
The stay will remain in effect until the Court considers and rules on an emergency motion filed by nine unions — including the BLET and International Brotherhood of Teamsters — and the BNSF Railway to stay the regulation until it has ruled on challenges to the constitutionality and legality of mandatory direct observation and an associated “strip search” requirement.
Friday, October 31, 2008
bentley@ble.org
http://www.ble.org/pr/news/newsflash.asp?id=4722
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