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

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Section4l: Policy and Standards fax Determination �9 Appropriate Units The basic policy objectives in determining the appropriateness of units shall be the effect of a proposed unit on 1) the efficient oporatioas of the City and its compatibility with the primary responsibility of the City and its employees to effectively and economically serve the public and 2) providing employees with effective representation based on recognized community of interest considerations. Tbese policy objectives require that the appropriate unit shall be the broadest feasible grouping of positions that share an identifiable connnunity of interest. Factors to be considered shall be: Similarity of the general kinds of work performed, typos of qualifications required, and the general worldng conditions. History of representation in the City and similar employment; except however, that no unit shalt be doemed to be an appropriate unit solely on the basis of the extent to which employees in the proposed unit have organized. The effect of the proposed unit on efficient ope itions of the City and the compatibility of the unit with the responsibility of the City and its ernployces to serve the pubho. The effect on the administration of cruployer- employee relations created by the fragmentation of classifications and proliferation of units. Effect on the classification structure and impact on the stability of the employee relationship of dividing a single or related classification among two or more units. Notwithstanding the foregoing, management employees shall only be inchided in a unit consisting solely of management employees and confidential employees shall be included in a unit consisting solely of confidential employees. When the City establishes new classifications or positions, or modifies the job content of an existing classification or position, the Employee Relations Officer shall, after notice to and consultation with all affected employee organizations, determine which, if any, representation unit shall include such new or modified classifications) or position(s), Section 12: Procedure for N1od,ificadon of Established. A2pr2priate Units Requests by employee organizations for modifications of established appropriate units may be considered by the Employee Relations Officer only during the period specified in Section 10 of this Resolution. Such requests shall be submitted in Cho form of a Recognition Petition, and, in addition to the requirements set forth in Section 6 of this Resolution, sha11 contain a complete statement of all relevant facts and citations in support of the proposed modified unit in terms of the policies mud standards set forth in Section 11 hereof. The Employee Relations Officer shall Process such petitions as other Recognition petitions under this Resolution. 106 25A -110