Common use of DUES DEDUCTION, MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION, AND UNION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE Clause in Contracts

DUES DEDUCTION, MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION, AND UNION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE. A. Dues Deduction 1. The State agrees to deduct from the regular paycheck of any employee in the Operations, Maintenance and Services and Crafts Unit, the dues of Local No. l95, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO, and from the pay of any employee in the Inspection and Security Unit the dues of Local No. l95, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO, or the Motor Vehicle Inspector Division of Local 32 BJ, SEIU, provided the employee submits an authorization for dues deduction in writing and in proper form to the responsible payroll clerk. On receipt of the form, the payroll clerk shall forward it within two (2) working days to the centralized payroll section, Department of the Treasury. Dues deduction will be reflected in the paycheck for the current pay period, provided the form is received in centralized payroll at least seven (7) calendar days prior to the end of the pay period otherwise to be reflected in the next pay period. If violations of these time frames are brought to the attention of the State, the State will review the matter and make best efforts to resolve the problem within two pay periods. 2. Dues so deducted by the State shall be transmitted to Local No. l95, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO or to the Motor Vehicle Inspector Division of Local 32 BJ, SEIU, as may be appropriate. 3. Prior to the beginning of each contract year, the Union will notify the State in writing of the amount of the regular membership dues, initiation fees and assessments charged by the Union to its own members for that contract year. The Union shall notify the State of any change in dues structure thirty (30) days in advance of the requested date of such change. The change shall be reflected in payroll deduction at the earliest time after receipt of the request. 4. Where an employee’s dues deduction is discontinued, the Union shall be provided with the State’s reason for the discontinuance on a quarterly basis. Unless an employee withdraws authorization for the deduction of Union dues, the State will continue to deduct dues. The movement of an employee from one title to another title and/or from one unit to another unit will not affect dues deduction, unless the new title or unit is not represented by the Union. It is understood that a transfer from IFPTE to SEIU or from SEIU to IFPTE is not considered a transfer from one unit to another. 5. Dues deductions for any employee in this negotiating unit shall be limited to the exclusive majority representative. Employees who have authorized the payroll deduction of dues to the Union may revoke such authorization by providing written notice to the State during the 10 days following each anniversary date of their employment. Within 5 days of receipt of notice from an employee of revocation of authorization for the payroll deduction of fees, the public employer shall provide notice to the employee organization of an employee’s revocation of such authorization. An employee’s notice of revocation for the payroll deduction of dues shall be effective on the 30th day after the anniversary date of employment. 6. Within 10 calendar days from the date of hire of negotiations unit employees, the Employer shall provide the following contact information to the Union in a digital format agreed to by the Union: name, job title, worksite location, home address, work telephone numbers, and any home and personal cellular telephone numbers on file with the Employer. Every 120 calendar days beginning on January 1, 2019, the Employer shall provide the Union the same information for all unit employees in a digital format agreed to by the Union. 7. The home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and negotiation units and groupings of employees, and the emails or other communications between employee organizations and their members, prospective members, and non-members, are not pursuant to the Workplace Democracy Enhancement Act, government records for the purposes of the Open Public Records Act. This provision does not prevent disclosure as otherwise required by law. 8. If after the State receives a proper notice from an employee revoking dues authorization, the State mistakenly deducts union dues from the employee and transmits dues to the Union, the Union shall be solely responsible for returning to the employee the dues it received.