Full Body scan at factory?

Geo-TH,In

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• Dec 27, 2013

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Does a factory have a legal right to make their employees go through a full body scan before they exit the building?

 

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OH Boy

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• Dec 27, 2013

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Sure they do. Nobody is forced to work there if they object.

 

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caseyc

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• Dec 27, 2013

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What's been coming up missing that a measure like that has been implemented?

Casey in SD

 

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IaGary

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• Dec 27, 2013

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It"s legal at an airport why wouldn"t it be at a factory.

I don"t know?

Gary

 

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Logan in S.E. Texas

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• Dec 27, 2013

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I work for a Major Refining Company on the Gulf Coast and we drive our personal vehicles into the plant. We have to "agree" to be searched entering and leaving the facility. They search more coming in than going out. Now these are physical searches of our vehicles, no hands on so far but I'm sure the paper I signed gives the company that right if they so chose. May have something to do with the kind of factory that you work at.

 

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farmerwithmutt

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• Dec 27, 2013

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yes if you sign paper also cameras in locker rooms .whatever happened to trust?

 

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the flying belgian

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• Dec 27, 2013

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I would sure think so. Like it or leave it.

 

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Texasmark1

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• Dec 27, 2013

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Same thing at a defense contractor or being in the military and working on the flight line.

A guy worked for a home equipment mfgr. Every day as he exited he would have a wheelbarrow full of sawdust. Upon exiting the fenced area the guard would check through the sawdust for contraband. Nothing. He passed on by.

Some time later a supervisor went to the gate and asked the guard if he had seen anybody stealing wheelbarrows. Daaaaah!

Mark

 

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DaninKansas

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• Dec 27, 2013

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Went away with not robbing the hand that feeds you.

 

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Ron in NS

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• Dec 27, 2013

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Depends. Does the scanner cause any known health problems after long term exposure, like an X-ray?
If so, you would have the right to object to having your life endangered.
I'm not a fan of these "scanners". Radiation is radiation, no matter what the source.

 

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Geo-TH,In

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• Dec 27, 2013

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Here are some body scans. Would your wife like to see guy look at here when she leaves work?
take a look

 

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farmerwithmutt

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• Dec 27, 2013

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amen to that 8 hrs pay for 8 hrs work then there lucky to get 2 or 3 out of them .

 

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IH2444

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• Dec 27, 2013

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(quoted from post at 20:09:50 12/27/13) Depends. Does the scanner cause any known health problems after long term exposure, like an X-ray?
If so, you would have the right to object to having your life endangered.
I'm not a fan of these "scanners". Radiation is radiation, no matter what the source.

Click to expand...

yep it is even from a cell phone.
Ban second hand cell phone radiation!

 

MarkB_MI

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Location

Motown USA

• Dec 28, 2013

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Let me guess: This is not a union shop, right?

 

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Bret4207

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• Dec 28, 2013

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I think if people check, union shop or not, that when you sign on the dotted line you might be agreeing to a lot of things you never thought about. If it's a good job you like, live with it.

 

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Geo-TH,In

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• Dec 28, 2013

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It's not union. Take a look at pics, it's like strip searching.

 

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NoNewParts

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• Dec 28, 2013

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sorry to say, but if it is a privately owned company,
they can pretty much do what they want.(because you can quit)
Since it's non union, quitting or maybe a complaint to the state
labor board.
Sometimes it's even worse in a union shop. have to be in the union to work there, and if the union signs off on it, the individual worker has NO legal avenues to pursue.

another option, extreme and you probably won't win,
is to absolutely refuse to do it.
you'll be fired.
Then let the courts sort it out.

 

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samn40

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• Dec 28, 2013

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George, are you looking for someone to do the horrible job of actually sitting every end of shift and watching those horrible images?
I can imagine it would get a bit boring after a while!!
LOL.....Sam

 

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Pops1532

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• Dec 28, 2013

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Is the issue addressed in the employee handbook?

I worked at a hospital back in '80 or 81. In one of the employee newsletters they stated that they had the right to, and would implement strip searches of some employees as they were leaving work. Some employees quietly approached some board members about the potential strip searches. I'm not sure what was said in that discussion but the story going around was the employees threatened to not put their clothes back on until they walked out to their cars. They figured the hospital would get enough bad PR from having 1200 people walking around naked that they would drop the strip search idea. Whatever the group of employees said worked. The next newsletter said they had dropped the strip search idea. That was 80 or '81. My guess is such searches would more easily accepted today.