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

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or assistant state fire marshat, or in any capacity wherein the member would have the status of peace officer for pmposes other than that of this Resolution. RECOGNIZED EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION - means an emptoyee organization which has been granted formal recognition by the Employee Relations Officer as the employee organization wbich has the right to meet and confer in good faith as the majority representative of all members of an appropriate representation unit pursuant to Section t t hereof, except those employees in such unit who have exercised their right not join an employee organization and who choose to represent themselves individually with the City, or has been designated through a secret ballot etection as the exclusive representative of the emptoyees in an appropriate representation unit pursuant to Section I t oithis Resolution. SCOPE OF REPRESENTATION - means those matters relating to employment conditions and employer-employee retations including, but not limited to, wages, hours, and other tenus and conditions of employment except, however, that the scope of representation shall not include consideration of the merits, necessity, or organization of any service or activity provided by law or executive order. Section 3: Designation of the City's Emplovee Relations Officer The City Council hereby designates the City Manager as the Employee Retations Officer who shall be the City's principal representative on all matters of employer-employee relations, with authority to meet and confer in good faith on matters within the scope of representation, and to administer all provisions of this Resolution and the employee retations rule and procedures adopted pursuant thereto. The Employee Relations Officer is authorized to delegate his duties and responsibilities. Section 4: Meet and Confer ill Good Faith - Scope City representatives and representatives of formally recognized employee organizations having exclusive representation rights, have the mutual obligation personally to meet and confer in good faith 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 finat budget for the ensuring year. The City shall not be required to meet and confer in good faith on a subject preempted by Federal or State taw or by the City Charter. Section 5: Notice The City wilt give reasonable written notice to each recognized employee organization affected by any ordinance, rule, resolution, or regutation retating to matters within the scope of representation proposed to be adopted by the City, and each such organization shall be given the opportunity to meet and confer with the Emptoyee Relations Officer prior to such adoption. In cases of emergency when the City detennines that an ordinance, rule, resolution, or regulation relating to matters within the scope of representation must be adopted immediately without prior notice or meeting with recognized employee organization, the Employee Relations Officer shall provide such notice and opportunity to meet at the earliest practicable time following the adoption of such ordinance, rule, resolution or regulation. Section 6: Petition for Recofmition An employee organization that seeks to be formally acknowledged as the Recognized Employee Organization representing the employees in an appropriate unit shall file a petition with the Employee Relations Officer containing the following information and documentation: Name and address of the employee organization. 95