SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 1939, AFL-CIO, CLC 4 (2004-2008)

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There has been compliance with the requirements of the Recognition Petition; and The proposed representation unit is an appropriate unit in accordance with Section 11 of this Resolution. If an affirmative determination is made by the Employee Relations Officer on the foregoing two matters, he shall within ten (10) days after making said determination, inform the petitioning employee organization, shall give written notice of such request for recognition to the employees in the unit and shall take no action on said request for thirty (30) days thereafter. If either ofthe foregoing matters are not affirmatively determined, the Employee Relations Officer shall meet and discuss the matter with such petitioning employee organization, and, if such detennination thereafter remains unchanged, shall infonn that organization of the reasons therefore in writing. The petitioning employee organization may appeal such determination in accordance with Section 13 of this Resolution. Section 8: Ooen Period for Filing Challenging Petition(s) Within thirty (30) days of the date written notice was given to affected employees that a valid Recognition Petition(s) for an appropriate unit has been filed, any other employee organization may file a competing request to be formally acknowledged as the recognized employee organization of the employees in the same or in an overlapping unit (one which corresponds with respect to some but not all the classifications or positions set forth in the Recognition Petition being challenged), by filing a petition(s) evidencing proof of employee support in the unit claimed to be appropriate of at least thirty (30) percent and otherwise in the same form and manner as set forth in Section 6 of this Resolution. If such challenging petition(s) seeks establishment of an overlapping unit, the Employee Relations Officer shall call for a hearing on such overlapping petitions for the purpose of ascertaining the more appropriate unit, at which time the petitioning employee organizations shall be heard. Thereafter, the Employee Relations Officer shall determine the appropriate unit or units in accordance with the standards in Section 11 of this Resolution. The petitioning employee organizations shall have fifteen (15) days from the date notice of such unit determination is communicated to them by the Employee Relations Officer to amend their petitions to conform to such determination or to appeal such determination pursuant to Section 13 of this Resolution. Section 9: Election Procedure The Employee Relations Officer shall arrange for a secret ballot election to be conducted by a party agreed to by the Employee Relations Officer and the concerned employee organization(s) in accordance with its rules and procedures subject to the provisions ofthis Resolution. All employee organizations who have duly subntitted petitions which have been determined to be in conformance with this Resolution shall be included on the ballot. The choice of "no organization" shall also be included on the ballot. Employees entitled to vote in such election shall be those persons employed full time in regular, permanent positions within the designated appropriate unit who were employed during the pay period immediately prior to the date which ended at least fifteen (15) days before the date the election commences, including those who did not work during such period because of illness, vacation or other authorized leaves of absence, and who are employed by the City in the same unit on the date of election. An employee organization shall be fonnally acknowledged as the Recognized Employee Organization for the designated appropriate unit following an election or runoff election if it received a numerical majority of all valid votes cast in the election. If an election involving three or more choices, where none of the choices receives a majority of the valid votes cast, a runoff election shall be conducted between the two choices receiving the largest nnmber of valid votes cast (that is, either between two employee organizations, or one employee organization and no representation); the rules governing an initial election being applicable to a runoff election, except that the runoff election shall be held within fifteen (15) days following the certification of the initial election results. There shall be no more than one valid election under this Resolution pursuant to any petition in a 12 month period affecting the same unit. In the event that the parties are unable to agree on a third party to conduct an election, the election shall be conducted by the California State Conciliation Service. Costs of conducting elections shall be borne in equal shares by the City and by each employee organization appearing on the ballot. 97