SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 1939, AFL-CIO, CLC 1 (2001-2004)

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EMPLOYEE RELATIONS OFFICER - means the City's principal representative in all matters of employer-employee relations designated pursuant to Section 3 hereof, or his duly authorized representative. EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS - means the relationship between the City and its employees and their employee organization, or when used in a general sense, the relationship between City management and individual employees or employee organizations. GRIEVANCE - means a dispute, claimed by an employee, group of employees or a recognized employee organization concerning the meaning, application, or enforcement of any of the provisions of the City's Employer-Employee Relations Policy or of a memorandum of understanding; and for which specific hearing or appeal procedure is not otherwise provided, or is not specifically withheld, by civil service rule, ordinance, resolution, charter provision, or memorandum of understanding. IMPASSE - means that the representatives of the City and a Recognized Employee Organization have reached a point in their meeting and conferring in good faith where their differences concerning matters on which they are required to meet and confer, remain so substantial that further meeting and conferring would not be likely to result in an agreement. MEDIATION OR CONCILIATION - means the efforts of an impartial third person or persons, functioning as intermediaries, to assist the parties in reaching a voluntary resolution to an impasse, through interpretation, suggestion and advice. Mediation and conciliation are interchangeable terms. MEET AND CONFER IN GOOD FAITH - (sometimes referred to herein as "meet and confer" or "meeting and conferring") - means the performance by duly authorized City representatives and duly authorized representatives of a recognized employee organization of their mutual obligation personally to meet and confer in good faith promptly upon the request of either party and continue for a reasonable period of time in order to exchange freely information, opinions and proposals, and to endeavor to reach agreement on matters within the scope of representation prior to the adoption by the City of its final budget for the ensuing year. This does not require either party to agree to a proposal or to make a concession. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING - means a written memorandum of the agreement between the City and a recognized employee organization reached through meeting and conferring. PEACE OFFICER - means an employee of the Santa Aha Police Department whose principal duties consist of active law enforcement and who is designated as a "peace officer" as that term is defined in Section 830, California Penal Code, except that, for 91