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<br />An allegation that the incumbent Recognized Employee Organization no longer represents a majority of the <br />employees in the appropriate unit, and any other relevant and material facts relating thereto. <br /> <br />Proof of employee support that a majority of the employees in the established appropriate unit no longer desires to <br />be represented by the incumbent Recognized Employee Organization. Such proof shall be submitted for <br />confirmation to the Employee Relations Officer or to a mutually agreed upon disinterested third party. <br /> <br />The Employee Relations Officer can only accept those petitions which 1) request decertification of the current <br />formally recognized employee organization and 2) do not request to carve out another unit from the already <br />established appropriate unit. <br /> <br />An employee organization may file a Petition under this Section in the form of a Recognition Petition that confonns <br />to the requirements of Section 6 of this Resolution in satisfaction of the Decertification Petition requirements <br />hereunder. <br /> <br />The Employee Relations Officer shall initially detennine whether the Decertification Petition or Recognition <br />Petition, if any, have been filed in compliance with the applicable provisions of this Resolution. If his determination <br />is in the negative, he shall offer to consult thereof with the representative(s) of such petitioning employees or <br />employee organization, and if such determination thereafter remains unchanged, shall return such Petition(s) to the <br />employees or employee organization with a statement of the reasons therefore in writing. The petitioning employees <br />or employee organization may appeal such determination in accordance with Section 13 of this Resolution. <br /> <br />If the determination of the Employee Relations Officer is in the affirmative, or if his negative detennination is <br />reversed on appeal, he shall give written notice of such Decertification of Recognition Petition to the incumbent <br />Recognized Employee Organization and to unit employees. <br /> <br />The Employee Relations Officer shall thereupon arrange for a secret ballot election to be held on or about fifteen <br />(15) days after such notice to determine the wishes of unit employees as to the question of decertification, and if an <br />accompanying Recognition Petition was duly filed, and, in the event decertification of the incumbent Recognized <br />Employee Organization is voted, the question of representation. Such election shall be conducted in conformance <br />with Section 9 of this Resolution. <br /> <br />The cost of any election proceeding under the provisions of this Section shall be borne entirely by the employee <br />organization(s) challenging the incumbent recognized employee organization. <br /> <br />An employee organization which displaces another employee organization as a formally recognized employee <br />organization following an election conducted pursuant to this Section shall assume any existing Memorandum of <br />Understanding then in effect as a condition of recognition and said Memorandum of Understanding shall remain in <br />full force and effect for the balance of the term thereof. <br /> <br />Section 11: Policy and Standards for Determination of Aooropriate Units <br /> <br />The basic policy objectives in detennining the appropriateness of units shall be the effect of a proposed unit on I) <br />the efficient operations of the City and its compatibility with the primary responsibility of the City and its employees <br />to effectively and economically serve the public and 2) providing employees with effective representation based on <br />recognized community of interest considerations. These policy objectives require that the appropriate unit shall be <br />the broadest feasible grouping of positions that share an identifiable community of interest. Factors to be considered <br />shall be: <br /> <br />Similarity of the general kinds of work performed, types of qualifications required, and the general working <br />conditions. <br /> <br />History of representation in the City and similar employment; except however, that no unit shall be deemed to be an <br />appropriate unit solely on the basis of the extent to which employees in the proposed unit have organized. <br /> <br />The effect of the proposed unit on efficient operations of the City and the compatibility of the unit with the <br />responsibility of the City and its employees to serve the public. <br /> <br />57 <br />