San Francisco Weekly -San Francisco Zoo workers have retained an attorney after learning that upper management allegedly had been spying on them using remote microphones that documented their private conversations, according to the union.
Tim Jenkins, a labor representative with Teamsters 856, tells SF Weekly that they found out a week ago about the microphones that are linked to radios zookeepers are required to carry on them. The radios were given to employees as a safety precaution after Tatiana the tiger escaped her cage in 2007 and mauled 17-year-old Carlos Eduardo Sousa Jr. to death. The radios contain panic buttons that if pushed will record a scene via microphone, Jenkins says.
But turns out, some of the top executives had some form of spyware installed on the radios which allowed them to listen in on their employees' conversations, whether they were work-related or private, Jenkins says. "How we found out was interesting," Jenkins says. "A non-union manager came to one of our union stewards as a whistleblower." The manager reportedly explained that he witnessed upper manager eavesdropping on another manager's conversation via radio.
"It's super creepy, and wrong, and possibly illegal," Jenkins says.
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