§ 3.32.050. Recognition of employee organizations.

A.

An employee organization seeking recognition as an exclusive bargaining agent for eligible personnel within an appropriate unit of the City government may file with the City a petition seeking that recognition. A petition may not be accepted by the City unless filed by the employee organization during the month of October.

B.

When evidence is presented to the City that at least thirty percent of the eligible personnel within an appropriate unit of the City government are members of an employee organization which seeks recognition for the purpose of bargaining on behalf of those personnel, the City shall grant those employees recognition as an employee organization after verifying, by a secret ballot election, that the majority of the employees in the appropriate unit desire to be represented by the employee organization. No election shall be conducted within an appropriate unit for the purpose of determining recognition more than once every twelve months.

C.

No unit shall be deemed appropriate if it includes both professional and other employees nor shall any unit be deemed appropriate if it includes both supervisory and nonsupervisory personnel.

D.

When an employee organization has been recognized, it shall have the exclusive right to represent all employees in the unit for the purpose of collective negotiation with respect to the terms and conditions of employment of employees in the unit.

(Prior code § 7-24(e))

(Ord. No. O-31-15 Amended, § I, 7-27-2015)