IDENTICAL GRIEVANCES. Should two or more Employees have identical grievances, the grievances can be combined if the Employer and Union agree to combine the grievances and process them as one grievance. The decision on the combined grievance will be binding on the other grievances.
IDENTICAL GRIEVANCES. When the parties become aware of identical grievances on safety issues arising under this section, involving two or more Districts, subject to the consent of the Union, one grievance shall be selected by the Union for processing. All decisions for that grievance will be binding on the other safety grievances.
IDENTICAL GRIEVANCES. In the case of an identical grievance involving a group of employees one employee’s grievance may be selected by the Union for processing. All decisions for that grievance will be binding on the other grievance(s). The Parties agree that for the purposes of this section identical grievances are ones arising from a common set of circumstances which adversely affect the grievants in the same manner where all of the witnesses would be testifying to the same or substantiallysimilar facts. The term “substantially similar” means facts which are sufficiently like so that a reasonable person would conclude that application of the same rules to the facts in each grievance would result in the same conclusions with regard tothe outcome of those grievances.
IDENTICAL GRIEVANCES. When a number of nurses have identical grievances and each nurse would be entitled to grieve separately they may present a group grievance in writing, with the signature of each nurse who is grieving, at the first step of the grievance procedure within fourteen (14) calendar days after the circumstances giving rise to the grievance have occurred Ought reasonably to have come to the attention of the ION OF RI- Where a difference arises between the Parties relating to the interpretation, application or administration of this Agreement, including any question as to a matter is arbitrable, or where an allegation is made that any provision of this Agreement has been violated, either of the Parties may, after exhausting the Grievance Procedure established by Article notify the other Party in writing of desire to submit the matter to Arbitration in accordance Article and the notice shall contain the name of the first Party's appointee to the Board of Arbitration. The recipient of the notice shall, within ten calendar days, inform the other Party of the name of its appointee to the Board of Arbitration. The two appointees so selected shall, within ten (10) calendar days of the appointment of the second of them, appoint a third person who shall be the Chairperson.
