Union Recognition and Bargaining Units Sample Clauses

Union Recognition and Bargaining Units. Section 1. ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇-▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇-▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ 109 E, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 2, AFL-CIO, to be the exclusive bargaining agent for all matters of wages, hours, benefits and working conditions--over which the Employer is obligated by law to collectively bargain--with respect to the employees in regular full-time and regular part time positions in the respective bargaining units represented by the Union. An employee hired for a special project of a limited duration, who does not qualify as a temporary employee under this Article, shall be considered a regular full-time or regular part-time employee. Excluded from the respective bargaining units are confidential employees, supervisory employees, interns (who, in association with an accredited post-secondary institution are gaining work experience related to their course or study), work experience/job training employees hired to perform seasonal / overload work, emergency work of limited duration, or work for employees on authorized leaves such as illness and vacation, and seasonal employees. Section 2. Unless mutually agreed otherwise, negotiations with any new bargaining units organized and certified under the provisions of the Washington State Statute R.C.W. 41.56, upon certification through the Public Employment Relations Commission election process, shall commence within sixty (60) days for the purpose of negotiating those issues to be addressed in the new bargaining unit's addendum. Upon agreement on the addendum, the new unit shall be placed under the negotiated provisions of the Master Agreement. It is not the intent of the parties that certified supervisor units, or other units as mutually agreed upon certification, will be placed under the terms of this Master Agreement.