CONDUCTING UNION BUSINESS. 1. “Union business” shall be defined to include but not be limited to any of the following: any and all activity related to the wages, hours, rates of pay, and any term or condition of employment, negotiations or processing of grievances and arbitrations, attendance at disciplinary and/or discharge meetings, attendance at meetings with bargaining unit member(s) to discuss wages, hours or any term or condition of employment. 2. All Union business which may be conducted during release time shall be performed by the Union without the assistance of students and in such a manner so as not to interfere with the regular duties of any employee. 3. The Union president and/or her/his designees shall have one hundred ten (110) duty free work hours each school year to carry out the business of the Union at a time requested mutually agreeable with her/his immediate supervisor. 4. Absence days, with pay and not chargeable to an employee’s allowance, shall be provided for attendance at or participation in council or international meetings of the Union. Arrangements for the use of such days shall be made in advance. 5. The Board agrees to furnish suitable bulletin boards in convenient places in each school to be used by the Union. 6. The Board agrees that the Union will be permitted the use of school facilities for regular and special business meetings of the Union and for committee meetings on Union business as well, provided that such use is requested and can be arranged in advance without disrupting other commitments for use of the premises and without incurring additional cost to the school district. The secretary of the local shall submit proper application forms to the administrator responsible for facility scheduling for the use of the facilities. 7. The Board agrees that the Union shall have access to the inter-school mailing system for distribution of communications to bargaining unit members.
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