Union: Workers Told to Use Urine Bags (not to waste time leaving a job site)

[Omaha Steve]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jgZ8mhPVjNkZwJ3X-kQUSUXWf4WQD8VHCE6O1

DENVER (AP) — Union officials in Colorado say a Qwest supervisor tried to cut down on lengthy bathroom breaks by telling workmen to use disposable urinal bags in the field.

The manager distributed the bags to 25 male field technicians, telling them not to waste time leaving a job site to search for a public bathroom, the Rocky Mountain News reported Thursday.

"We deal with a lot of silliness in corporate America, but you've got to admit, it takes the freakin' cake," Reed Roberts, an administrative director at the Communications Workers of America District 7, told the newspaper.

Roberts did not return a message left by The Associated Press.

Qwest spokeswoman Jennifer Barton said, "There's no policy whatsoever" requiring field technicians to use the bags.

"They are there for convenience, and they are there because employees asked for them," she said.

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[MethuenProgressive]

1. I say the union members should return the bags to the Qwest supervisor.

Full.



Steve, thanks for all the Unuion posts you share!
:thumbsup:

[rzemanfl]

2. Do they defend these guys against indecent exposure charges

too? Provide bail? Support them while they are on the sex offender registry for decades?

[Parche]

3. Thats A Pisser

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