Hello all,
I just want to rant a bit and maybe get some advice. I work for a company that is contracted by Chevron to move railcars in one of their refineries in California. Last night I found a railcar that had came off the tracks and I took some pictures and sent them to my manager. My manager of course did not respond because he was asleep. I work graveyard and my co-workers and I have no direct supervision, so if we have an incident, we have to wake people up. Seeing as it wasn't a big incident and no one knew when it happened, I did not believe that I had to wake people up.
Today, my manager calls me and tells me that Chevron management wants everyone to get drug tested. Including people that were not even there. I talked with my union rep and he told me that the company can not demand we take drug tests because there is no probable reason for drug testing. This is the first time that I have heard of this rule. In prior incidents, the people who were involved in the incident would get drug tested but today I was told by my union rep to not drug test. No one got injured, I did not have an incident, I only reported my findings.
Does anyone know more about this? I already know that this is going to be a big issue in the next few days, I just want to make sure that I am in the right to refuse a drug test.
I did a google search and found that this rule has been in effect since 2016. What really bothers me is that I had a co-worker in 2020 that lost his job over a drug test and my union rep never disputed the firing.
The other thing that bothers me is that in 2014 my operation lost all of their safety related bonuses because the company said that OSHA had banned all companies from giving out safety related bonuses. But 2016 when a new rule came out that benefits the workers, they seem to not be aware of it. Moral of the story is, fuck these fucking corporations and their bullshit.
Thank you all for reading.