SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 721 (SEIU) (2015-2017)

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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. In cases where a Memoranduun of Understanding between the City and an employee organization is in effect on the effective date of this Resolution, it shall be presumed for the duration of the Memorandum of Understanding that the unit set forth in the Memorandum of Understanding is appropriate and that the employee organization is the majority representative of the employees covered therein. Unless a petition is filed pursuant to Section 12 below, it shall be presumed that when said Memorandum of Understanding lanninates the employee organization shall continue to be a majority representative of employees covered by said Memorandum of Understanding for the purposes of meeting and confoixing regarding matters within the scope of representation; provided, however, the employee organization files with the City the inforn ation required by Section 6(a), 1 through 13 of this Resolution. Nothing contained herein shall preclude an employee organization from -filing a petition far recognition pursuant to Section 6 or Section 10 of this Resolution at the expiration of Memoranda of Understanding which expire on June 30, 1981. Section IO; Procedure forDecertifieatio ofRecourized l3mulovee Oraanizat on A Decertification Petition alleging that the incumbent Recognized Employee Organization no longer represents a majority of the employees in in established appropriate unit may be filed with the Employee Relations Officer only during the month of January of any year following the first full year of recognition or during the thirty (30) clay period connnencing one hundred eighty (180) days prior to the termination date of a Memorandum of Understanding then having been in effect less than three (3) years, whichever occurs later. A Decertification Petition may be filed by employees or their representative, or an employee organization, and shall contain the following information and documentation declared by the duly authorized signatory under penalty of perjury to be tine, correct and complete: The name, address and telephone, number of the petitioner and a designated representative authorized to receive notices of requests for further information. The name of the established appropriate unit and of the incumbent Recognized Employee Organization sought to be decertified as the representative of that unit. An allegation that the incumbent Recognized Employee Organization no longer represents a majority of the employees in the appropriate emit, and any other relevant and material, facts relating thereto. Proof of employee support that a majority of the employees in the established appropriate unit no longer desires to be represented by the incumbent Recognized Employee Organization. Such 1od 25A -108