Common use of ASSOCIATION GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE Clause in Contracts

ASSOCIATION GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE. For administrative convenience, the Board may cause complaints which may be the subject of grievance under the article first to be presented to the Saranac Education Association for informal processing in an effort to reduce the number of formal grievances handled under the professional grievance procedures herein established. The parties shall mutually work out procedures for such informal processing upon request, but exhaustion of such informal procedure shall not be required as a condition precedent to invoking the grievance procedure, nor shall participation of the Association in such informal procedures be deemed to be a supervisory or executive function.