Common use of Membership Communication Clause in Contracts

Membership Communication. The District will provide the Association reasonable access to new employees of the bargaining unit for the purpose of presenting information about their exclusive bargaining representative to the new employees. The presentation may occur during a new employee orientation provided by the District, or at another time mutually agreed to by the District and Association. “Reasonable access” for the purpose of this section means: (a) The access to the new employees occurs within ninety days of the employee’s start date within the bargaining unit; (b) The access is for no less than thirty minutes; and (c) The access occurs during the employee’s regular work hours at the employee’s regular worksite, or at a location mutually agreed to by the District and Association. It is understood that new employees will be compensated for this time. The Association shall have the right to utilize bulletin boards, which shall be provided in each faculty lounge or each school in the District, or place of reasonable access to teachers if faculty lounges are not in existence in a given school.