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

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proof shall be submitted for oonfirmation to the Employee Relations Officer or to a mutually agreed upon disinterested third party. The Employee Relations Officer can only accept those petitions which 1) request decertification of the current formally recognized employee organization and 2) do not request to carve out another unit from the already established appropriate unit. An employee organization may file a Petition Linder this Section In the form of a Recognition Petition that conforms to the requirements of Section 6 of this Resolution in satisfaction of the Decertification Petition requirements hereunder, The Employee Relations Officer shall initially determine whether the Decertification Petitio'n'er Recognition Petition, if any, have been filed ill compliance with the applicable provisions of this Resolution, If his determination is in the negative, he shall offer to consult thereof with the reprosentativo(s) of such petitioning employees or employee organization, and if such determination thereafter remains unchanged, shall return such Petition(s) to the. employees or employee organization with a statement of the reasons therefore in writing. The petitioning employees or employee organization may appeal such determination in accordance with Section 13 of this Resolution. If the determination of the Employee Relations Officer is in the affirmative, or if has negative determination is reversed on appeal, Ire shall give written notice of such Decertification of Recognition Petition to the incumbent Recognized Employee Organization and to unit employees. The Employee Relations Officer shall thereupon arrange for a secret ballot election to be held on or about fifteen (15) days after such notice to determine the wishes of unit employees as to the question of decertification, and if an accompanying Recognition Petition was duly filed, and, in the event decertification of the incumbont .Recogui.zod Employee Organization is voted, the question of representation, Such election shall be conducted in conformance with Section 9 of this Resolution. Tire cost of any election proceeding under the provisions of this Section shall be borne entirely by the employee organizat cn(s) clxallenging the incumbent recognized employee organization, An omployee organization wlielt displaces another employee organization as a formally recognized omployee organization following an election conducted pursuant to this Section shall assume any existing Memorandum of Understanding than ill effect as a condition of recognition and said iMemorandLun of Understanding shall remain in 'Rill force and effect for the balance of the term thereof, 105 25A -109