Common use of RECOGNITION AND UNION SECURITY Clause in Contracts

RECOGNITION AND UNION SECURITY. 1. The Hospital recognizes the Union as the exclusive bargaining agent of the employees covered by this Agreement for the purpose of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, hours of work, and working conditions. 2. Membership in or fair share payments to the Union is voluntary for employees hired on or before July 9, 2007. However, once an employee joins the Union, the employee must as a condition of employment, maintain membership in the Union for the duration of this Agreement. All employees hired on or after July 10th, 2007 or any non-bargaining unit employees who transfer or promote into a bargaining unit position on or after July 10th, 2007 shall become members of the Union or make fair share payments to the Union as a condition of employment after thirty-one (31) calendar days of beginning their employment. All bargaining unit employees must maintain membership in good standing or make monthly fair share payments for the duration of the collective bargaining agreement. Xxxxxxx’x Rights - A xxxxxxx will be allowed thirty (30) minutes to educate new employees about the Union at all new employee orientations. Hospital will provide an annual calendar of new employee orientation dates to the Union in December of the proceeding year. 3. For the duration of this Agreement, the Hospital shall deduct from each employee’s wages, initiation fees, monthly Union dues, fair share payments, and COPE deductions, as specified by the Union; provided that the employee has signed a written assignment and authorization which has been received by the Hospital. Such assignment and authorization shall be effective at the time it is signed by the employee, and it shall remain in accordance with the conditions specified on the Union authorization form. Employees who exercise their right of non-association, based on a bona fide religious tenets or teachings of a church or religious body of which an employee is a member may exercise the right to pay an amount equivalent to regular union dues and initiation fees to one of the following organizations: United Way, MWMC Foundation or American Cancer Society. Payments are to be made on a monthly basis or in advance with receipts sent to the President of the Union. 4. The following general conditions will be applicable: A. The Hospital will provide the Union an electronic list in a format the Hospital can provide such as MS Excel by the eighteenth (18th) of each month of all the new employees hired for the period between the sixteenth (16th) of the prior month through the fifteenth (15th) of the current month, a list of terminated employees and a list of employees who have transferred out of the bargaining unit. This monthly electronic transmission shall also contain a list all bargaining unit employees with name, employee identification or social security number or other mutually agreeable unique identifying number, monthly dues, fair share and COPE deduction amounts, and gross monthly wages with overtime excluded from the prior month. In addition, the Hospital will supply the Union a quarterly electronic list of bargaining unit employees’ names, mutually agreeable unique identifying number, home and mailing addresses, department names and codes to which each employee is assigned, job classifications and codes for each employee, hire dates, birth dates, rates of pay, employee status, hours of work in the preceding quarter, including straight-time overtime, and call-in time. By December 18th of each year, the Union and the Hospital shall establish a mutually agreeable calendar for the following year with billing due dates and file transmission dates. B. By the twenty-fifth (25th) of each month, the President of the local Union will provide the Hospital with a list of employees indicating the monthly dues and initiations fees. The Union, upon request will also provide the Hospital with a copy of the membership and COPE check-off authorization. C. Deductions for initiation fees and dues will be made from the employees’ pay checks each pay day not to exceed two (2) pay days per month and submitted to the Union office no later than seven (7) calendar days after the same is deducted. 5. The Union shall indemnify the Hospital and save it harmless against any and all suits, claims, demands and liabilities that shall arise out of or be reason of any action that shall be taken by the Hospital for the purpose of complying with the provisions of Article 4, or in reliance upon any assignment and authorization form, list or information which shall have been furnished the Hospital under such provisions. 6. When new employees are hired who are subject to the Agreement, the Hospital shall deliver to such employees a written notice stating that the Hospital recognizes the Union as the collective bargaining agent for the employees covered by the Agreement, and quoting or paraphrasing the provisions of Article 4 of the Agreement. A representative of the Union shall be given thirty (30) minutes with each new employee orientation class for the purpose of discussing the benefits of membership in the Union. The employees will be given thirty (30) calendar days from the date of hire to declare in writing their preference for membership or fair share.

RECOGNITION AND UNION SECURITY. 1. The Hospital recognizes the Union as the exclusive bargaining agent of the employees covered by this Agreement for the purpose of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, hours of work, and working conditions. 2. Membership in or fair share payments to the Union is voluntary for employees hired on or before July 9, 2007. However, once an employee joins the Union, the employee must as a condition of employment, maintain membership in the Union for the duration of this Agreement. All employees hired on or after July 10th, 2007 or any non-bargaining unit employees who transfer or promote into a bargaining unit position on or after July 10th, 2007 shall become members of the Union or make fair share payments to the Union as a condition of employment after thirty-one (31) calendar days of beginning their employment. All bargaining unit employees must maintain membership in good standing or make monthly fair share payments for the duration of the collective bargaining agreement. Xxxxxxx’x Rights - A xxxxxxx will be allowed thirty (30) minutes to educate new employees about the Union at all new employee orientations. Hospital will provide an annual calendar of new employee orientation dates to the Union in December of the proceeding year. 3. For the duration of this Agreement, the Hospital shall deduct from each employee’s wages, initiation fees, monthly Union dues, fair share payments, and COPE deductions, as specified by the Union; provided that the employee has signed a written assignment and authorization which has been received by the Hospital. Such assignment and authorization shall be effective at the time it is signed by the employee, and it shall remain in accordance with the conditions specified on the Union authorization form. Employees who exercise their right of non-association, based on a bona fide religious tenets or teachings of a church or religious body of which an employee is a member may exercise the right to pay an amount equivalent to regular union dues and initiation fees to one of the following organizations: United Way, MWMC Foundation or American Cancer Society. Payments are to be made on a monthly basis or in advance with receipts sent to the President of the Union. 4. The following general conditions will be applicable: A. The Hospital will provide the Union an electronic list in a format the Hospital can provide such as MS Excel by the eighteenth (18th) of each month of all the new employees hired for the period between the sixteenth (16th) of the prior month through the fifteenth (15th) of the current month, a list of terminated employees and a list of employees who have transferred out of the bargaining unit. This monthly electronic transmission shall also contain a list all bargaining unit employees with name, employee identification or social security number or other mutually agreeable unique identifying number, monthly dues, fair share and COPE deduction amounts, and gross monthly wages with overtime excluded from the prior month. In addition, the Hospital will supply the Union a quarterly electronic list of bargaining unit employees’ names, mutually agreeable unique identifying number, home and mailing addresses, department names and codes to which each employee is assigned, job classifications and codes for each employee, hire dates, birth dates, rates of pay, employee status, hours of work in the preceding quarter, including straight-time overtime, and call-in time. By December 18th of each year, the Union and the Hospital shall establish a mutually agreeable calendar for the following year with billing due dates and file transmission dates. B. By the twenty-fifth (25th) of each month, the President of the local Union will provide the Hospital with a list of employees indicating the monthly dues and initiations fees. The Union, upon request will also provide the Hospital with a copy of the membership and COPE check-off authorization. C. Deductions for initiation fees and dues will be made from the employees’ pay checks each pay day not to exceed two (2) pay days per month and submitted to the Union office no later than seven (7) calendar days after the same is deducted. 5. The Union shall indemnify the Hospital and save it harmless against any and all suits, claims, demands and liabilities that shall arise out of or be reason of any action that shall be taken by the Hospital for the purpose of complying with the provisions of Article 4, or in reliance upon any assignment and authorization form, list or information which shall have been furnished the Hospital under such provisions. 6. When new employees are hired who are subject to the Agreement, the Hospital shall deliver to such employees a written notice stating that the Hospital recognizes the Union as the collective bargaining agent for the employees covered by the Agreement, and quoting or paraphrasing the provisions of Article 4 of the Agreement. A representative of the Union shall be given thirty (30) minutes with each new employee orientation class for the purpose of discussing the benefits of membership in the Union. The employees will be given thirty (30) calendar days from the date of hire to declare in writing their preference for membership or fair share.

RECOGNITION AND UNION SECURITY. 1. The Hospital recognizes the Union as the exclusive bargaining agent of the employees covered by this Agreement for the purpose of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, hours of work, and working conditions. 2. Membership in or fair share payments to the Union is voluntary for employees hired on or before July 9, 2007. However, once an employee joins the Union, the employee must as a condition of employment, maintain membership in the Union for the duration of this Agreement. All employees hired on or after July 10th, 2007 or any non-bargaining unit employees who transfer or promote into a bargaining unit position on or after July 10th, 2007 shall become members of the Union or make fair share payments to the Union as a condition of employment after thirty-one (31) calendar days of beginning their employment. All bargaining unit employees must maintain membership in good standing or make monthly fair share payments for the duration of the collective bargaining agreement. Xxxxxxx’x Rights - A xxxxxxx will be allowed thirty (30) minutes to educate new employees about the Union in person at all new employee orientations, or another mutually agreed upon time within the employee’s first month of employment. Hospital will provide an annual calendar of new employee orientation dates to the Union in December of the proceeding preceding year. The employer shall provide to the Union a list of all employees attending the orientation as many days as possible prior to such orientation and no later than one (1) day before the orientation. The employer and the Union agree that for the life of this agreement, the employer will be absent from the room during the new employee orientation. The orientation shall be mandatory for new employees and attendance will be treated the same as attendance at mandatory in-services. 3. For the duration of this Agreement, the Hospital shall deduct from each employee’s wages, initiation fees, monthly Union dues, fair share payments, and COPE deductions, as specified by the Union; provided that the employee has signed a written assignment and authorization which has been received by the Hospital. Such assignment and authorization shall be effective at the time it is signed by the employee, and it shall remain in accordance with the conditions specified on the Union authorization form. Employees who exercise their right of non-association, based on a bona fide religious tenets or teachings of a church or religious body of which an employee is a member may exercise the right to pay an amount equivalent to regular union dues and initiation fees to one of the following organizations: United Way, MWMC Foundation or American Cancer Society. Payments are to be made on a monthly basis or in advance with receipts sent to the President of the Union. The parties acknowledge and agree that the term “written authorization” as provided in this Agreement includes authorizations created and maintained by use of electronic records and electronic signatures consistent with state and federal law. The Union, therefore, may use electronic records to verify Union membership, obtain authorization from employees for voluntary deduction of Union dues and fees from wages or payments for remittance to the Union, and obtain authorization from employees for voluntary deductions from wages or payments for remittance to COPE Funds, subject to the requirements of state and federal law. Provided the records comply with applicable law, the employer shall accept such electronic records from the Union and give full force and effect to such authorizations as “written authorization” for purposes of this Agreement. 4. The following general conditions will be applicable: A. a. The Hospital will provide the Union an electronic list in a format the Hospital can provide such as MS Excel by the eighteenth (18th) of each month of all the new employees hired for the period between the sixteenth (16th) of the prior month through the fifteenth (15th) of the current month, a list of terminated employees and a list of employees who have transferred out of the bargaining unit. This monthly electronic transmission shall also contain a list all bargaining unit employees with name, employee identification or social security number or other mutually agreeable unique identifying number, monthly dues, fair share and COPE deduction amounts, and gross monthly wages with overtime excluded from the prior month. The Union recognizes the confidential nature of all represented employees’ social security numbers and agrees to maintain reasonable safeguards to preserve the confidentiality of these numbers. In addition, the Hospital will supply the Union a quarterly monthly electronic list of bargaining unit employees’ names, mutually agreeable unique identifying number, home and mailing addresses, department names and codes to which each employee is assigned, job classifications and codes for each employee, hire dates, birth dates, rates of pay, employee status, hours of work in the preceding quartermonth, including straight-time overtime, and call-in time. By December 18th of each year, the Union and the Hospital shall establish a mutually agreeable calendar for the following year with billing due dates and file transmission dates. B. b. By the twenty-fifth (25th) of each month, the President of the local Union will provide the Hospital with a list of employees indicating the monthly dues and initiations fees. The Union, upon request will also provide the Hospital with a copy of the membership and COPE check-off authorization. C. c. Deductions for initiation fees and dues will be made from the employees’ pay checks each pay day not to exceed two (2) pay days per month and submitted to the Union office no later than seven (7) calendar days after the same is deducted. 5. The Union shall indemnify the Hospital and save it harmless against any and all suits, claims, demands and liabilities that shall arise out of or be reason of any action that shall be taken by the Hospital for the purpose of complying with the provisions of Article 4, or in reliance upon any assignment and authorization formform (including but not limited to any electronic record and any electronic signature encompassed by Article 4, Section 3), list or information which shall have been furnished to the Hospital under such provisions. 6. When new employees are hired who are subject to the Agreement, the Hospital shall deliver to such employees a written notice stating that the Hospital recognizes the Union as the collective bargaining agent for the employees covered by the Agreement, Agreement and quoting or paraphrasing the provisions of Article 4 of the Agreement. A representative of the Union shall be given thirty (30) minutes with each new employee orientation class for the purpose of discussing the benefits of membership in the Union. The employees will be given thirty (30) calendar days from the date of hire to declare in writing their preference for membership or fair share.

RECOGNITION AND UNION SECURITY. 1. The Hospital recognizes the Union as the exclusive bargaining agent of the employees covered by this Agreement for the purpose of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, hours of work, and working conditions. 2. Membership in or fair share payments to the Union is voluntary for employees hired on or before July 9, 2007. However, once an employee joins the Union, the employee must as a condition of employment, maintain membership in the Union for the duration of this Agreement. All employees hired on or after July 10th, 2007 or any non-bargaining unit employees who transfer or promote into a bargaining unit position on or after July 10th, 2007 shall become members of the Union or make fair share payments to the Union as a condition of employment after thirty-one (31) calendar days of beginning their employment. All bargaining unit employees must maintain membership in good standing or make monthly fair share payments for the duration of the collective bargaining agreement. Xxxxxxx’x Rights - A xxxxxxx will be allowed thirty (30) minutes to educate new employees about the Union at all new employee orientations. Hospital will provide an annual calendar of new employee orientation dates to the Union in December of the proceeding preceding year. The employer shall provide to the Union a list of all employees attending the orientation as many days as possible prior to such orientation and no later than one (1) day before the orientation. The employer and the Union agree that for the life of this agreement, the employer will be absent from the room during the new employee orientation. 3. For the duration of this Agreement, the Hospital shall deduct from each employee’s wages, initiation fees, monthly Union dues, fair share payments, and COPE deductions, as specified by the Union; provided that the employee has signed a written assignment and authorization which has been received by the Hospital. Such assignment and authorization shall be effective at the time it is signed by the employee, and it shall remain in accordance with the conditions specified on the Union authorization form. Employees who exercise their right of non-association, based on a bona fide religious tenets or teachings of a church or religious body of which an employee is a member may exercise the right to pay an amount equivalent to regular union dues and initiation fees to one of the following organizations: United Way, MWMC Foundation or American Cancer Society. Payments are to be made on a monthly basis or in advance with receipts sent to the President of the Union. 4. The following general conditions will be applicable: A. The Hospital will provide the Union an electronic list in a format the Hospital can provide such as MS Excel by the eighteenth (18th) of each month of all the new employees hired for the period between the sixteenth (16th) of the prior month through the fifteenth (15th) of the current month, a list of terminated employees and a list of employees who have transferred out of the bargaining unit. This monthly electronic transmission shall also contain a list all bargaining unit employees with name, employee identification or social security number or other mutually agreeable unique identifying number, monthly dues, fair share and COPE deduction amounts, and gross monthly wages with overtime excluded from the prior month. The Union recognizes the confidential nature of all represented employees’ social security numbers and agrees to maintain reasonable safeguards to preserve the confidentiality of these numbers. In addition, the Hospital will supply the Union a quarterly monthly electronic list of bargaining unit employees’ names, mutually agreeable unique identifying number, home and mailing addresses, department names and codes to which each employee is assigned, job classifications and codes for each employee, hire dates, birth dates, rates of pay, employee status, hours of work in the preceding quartermonth, including straight-time overtime, and call-in time. By December 18th of each year, the Union and the Hospital shall establish a mutually agreeable calendar for the following year with billing due dates and file transmission dates. B. By the twenty-fifth (25th) of each month, the President of the local Union will provide the Hospital with a list of employees indicating the monthly dues and initiations fees. The Union, upon request will also provide the Hospital with a copy of the membership and COPE check-off authorization. C. Deductions for initiation fees and dues will be made from the employees’ pay checks each pay day not to exceed two (2) pay days per month and submitted to the Union office no later than seven (7) calendar days after the same is deducted. 5. The Union shall indemnify the Hospital and save it harmless against any and all suits, claims, demands and liabilities that shall arise out of or be reason of any action that shall be taken by the Hospital for the purpose of complying with the provisions of Article 4, or in reliance upon any assignment and authorization formform (including but not limited to any electronic record and any electronic signature encompassed by Article 4, Section 3), list or information which shall have been furnished to the Hospital under such provisions. 6. When new employees are hired who are subject to the Agreement, the Hospital shall deliver to such employees a written notice stating that the Hospital recognizes the Union as the collective bargaining agent for the employees covered by the Agreement, and quoting or paraphrasing the provisions of Article 4 of the Agreement. A representative of the Union shall be given thirty (30) minutes with each new employee orientation class for the purpose of discussing the benefits of membership in the Union. The employees will be given thirty (30) calendar days from the date of hire to declare in writing their preference for membership or fair share.