A clear consensus is developing among the courts that random drug testing of public employees violates the fourth amendment's standard of 'reasonableness' for a search and seizure. Apart from some local ordinances (notably San Francisco) and mandates of State constitutions (notably California), private-sector employees are unprotected from indiscriminate drug testing. Some labor unions are effectively opposing drug testing programs, but their membership is a small percentage of the American workforce. The privacy protection afforded public employees should also be extended to private employees through a Federal statute that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures by private employers. 11 footnotes.