SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 721 (SEIU) - PART-TIME CIVIL SERVICE (2010-2013)

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Section 6 of this Resolution. If such challenging petition(s) seeks establishment of an overlapping unit, the Employee Relations Officer shall call for a heazing on such overlapping petitions for the purpose of ascertaining the more appropriate unit, at which time the petitioning employee organizations shall be heard. Thereafter, the Employee Relations Officer shall determine the appropriate unit or units in accordance with the standards in Section 11 of this Resolution. The petitioning employee organizations shall have fifteen (15) days from the date notice of such unit determination is communicated to them by the Employee Relations Officer to amend their petitions to conform to such determination or to appeal such determination pursuant to Section 13 of this Resolution. Section 9: Election Procedure The Employee Relations Officer shall arrange for a secret ballot election to be conducted by a party agreed to by the Employee Relations Officer and the concerned employee organization(s) in accordance with its rules and procedures subject to the provisions of this Resolution. All employee organizations who have duly submitted petitions which have been determined to be in conformance with this Resolution shall be included on the ballot. The choice of "no organization" shall also be included on the ballot. Employees entitled to vote in such election shall be those persons employed full time in regular, permanent positions within the designated appropriate unit who were employed during the pay period immediately prior to the date which ended at least fifteen (15) days before the date the election commences, including those who did not work during such period because of illness, vacation or other authorized leaves of absence, and who aze employed by the City in the same unit on the date of election. An employee organization shall be formally acknowledged as the Recognized Employee Organization for the designated appropriate unit following an election or runoff election if it received a numerical majority of all valid votes cast in the election. If an election involving three or more choices, where none of the choices receives a majority of the valid votes cast, a runoff election shall be conducted between the two choices receiving the largest number of valid votes cast (that is, either between two employee organizations, or one employee organization and no representation); the rules governing an initial election being applicable to a runoff election, except that the runoff election shall be held within fifteen (15) days following the certification of the initial election results. 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 Memorandum 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 terminates the employee organization shall continue to be a majority representative of employees covered by said Memorandum of Understanding for the purposes of meeting and conferring regarding matters within the scope of representation; provided, however, the employee organization files with the City the information required by Section 6(a), 1 through 13 of this Resolution. Nothing contained herein shall preclude an employee organization from filing a petition for recognition pursuant to Section 6 or Section 1 O of this Resolution at the expiration of Memoranda of Understanding which expire on June 30, 1981. Section 1 O: Procedure for Decertification of Recognized Emnlovee Organization A Decertification Petition alleging that the incumbent Recognized Employee Organization no longer represents a majority of the employees in an 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) day period commencing 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 true, 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. 59