HSTA CAN USE OTHER UNIONS' GUIDELINES

The teachers union should abide by its contractual agreement with the
state and get on with the random drug testing.

HSTA concerns of privacy rights or the potential for illegal searches
and seizures can all be eliminated by using the same contractual
language, with all the checks and balances, and protective guidelines
for their members, that other public sector unions like SHOPO
(police), the firefighters' union and UPW have in their drug-testing
contractual policies with the city.

If they have nothing to hide, what are they afraid of? Enough
Department of Education personnel have been arrested for using,
possessing and selling illegal drugs to warrant mandatory random drug
testing.

Steven T. K. Burke

Pearl City