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Teamsters, residents press council over mass DPW drug testing and private-investigator spending; council seeks records
Summary
After union testimony alleging humiliating mass drug tests of DPW staff and use of private investigators, the Medford City Council split a broad resolution into parts and voted to request reports on the superintendent separation, bond-rating changes, investigator contracts, and drug-testing costs and policies.
Union representatives and dozens of residents told the City Council on Dec. 17 that they were alarmed by a recent operation in which 28 Department of Public Works employees were tested, a process witnesses described as mass, public and intrusive. Nancy Campbell of Teamsters Local 25 told the council the testing lacked individualized suspicion and violated policies; she said every tested employee subsequently passed.
Council action: Councilor Scarpelli…
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