Pubdate: Wed, 20 Apr 2005
Source: Journal Gazette, The (IN)
Copyright: 2005 The Journal Gazette
Contact:  http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/908
Author: Bob Caylor
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/testing.htm (Drug Testing)

AT LEAST TWO-THIRDS MUST HAVE JUST SAID NO

How big a problem is the use of illegal drugs in Indiana? Nobody knows
with certainty; they are illegal, after all, and some users exercise a
degree of discretion. But an Elkhart County company that makes travel
trailers came up with a shocking answer for its own work force.

After mandatory tests for marijuana, cocaine, amphetamine and
methamphetamine, about 40 employees at Keystone RV Co. Inc. tested
positive and were fired. That's a third of the employees at Plant No.
304, one of the company's factories in Goshen.

Keystone President Ron Fenech told The Truth of Elkhart that the tests
were ordered because police said there was a significant drug problem
at the plant.

It's up to every business to decide how hard a line it wants to take
against illegal drug use, but there's no denying that it's a problem
when positive test results peel off a third of the employees.
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