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===Historical cases=== * In 2000, an Australian Mining Company South Blackwater Coal Ltd with 400 employees, imposed drug-testing procedures, and the trade unions advised their members to refuse to take the tests, partly because a positive result does not necessarily indicate present impairment; the workers were stood-down by the company without pay for a week.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Case-Study. Drug Testing in the Australian Mining Industry |url=http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles1(2)/drugsmining.pdf |journal=[[Surveillance & Society]] |pages=204β9 |author=Holland, Peter |access-date=July 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628232845/http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles1(2)/drugsmining.pdf |archive-date=June 28, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * In 2003, sixteen members of the [[Chicago White Sox]] considered refusing to take a drug test, in hopes of making [[steroid]] testing mandatory.<ref>{{cite news |title=White Sox Players Almost Refused Drug Test |agency=Associated Press |date=March 12, 2003 |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-mar-12-sp-bbnotes12-story.html |access-date=February 21, 2020 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306013906/http://articles.latimes.com/2003/mar/12/sports/sp-bbnotes12 |url-status=live }}</ref> * In 2006, [[Levy County, Florida]], volunteer librarians resigned en masse rather than take drug tests.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006210070330 |title=Library volunteers just say no to drug testing |author=Voyles, Karen |date=October 6, 2006 |newspaper=Gainesville Sun |access-date=July 27, 2010 |archive-date=June 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615011546/http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006210070330 |url-status=live }}</ref> * In 2010, Iranian super heavyweight class weightlifters refused to submit to a drug test authorized by the Iran Weightlifting League.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=214245|title=Iranian weightlifters refuse drug testing|date=February 16, 2010|access-date=July 27, 2010|archive-date=June 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614003528/http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=214245|url-status=live}}</ref>
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