Common use of Request for Dues Checkoff Clause in Contracts

Request for Dues Checkoff. Employees shall have the right to request and be allowed dues checkoff for the employee’s organization of their selection, provided that dues checkoff and proceeds thereof shall not be allowed any employee organization that has lost its rights to dues checkoff pursuant to 179.64 to 179.65 of the PELRA. Upon receipt of a properly executed authorization card of the employee involved, the school district will deduct from the employee’s bimonthly paycheck the dues that the employee has agreed to authorize beginning in October. When a bargaining unit member has so authorized a dues deduction, such authorization cannot be canceled except by written notice to the District from the union president. A member seeking cancellation must provide written notice to the union president. Deductions shall be made from each semi-monthly paycheck issued to the employee and transmitted to the designated organizations together with a list of names of the employees from whom deductions were made. The district payroll department shall notify the local treasurer of the name and work location of new employees hired in position covered under this agreement within thirty (30) days from the date of employment.