Union Pool Time. Section 1 The City agrees to establish a fund called Union Pool Time and allow Union officials to utilize Union Pool Time for Union activities to be limited to negotiations, conferences, and other official meetings as directed by the Union Board.
Union Pool Time. The Employer will grant four hundred (400) hours annually for use as AFSCME Pool Time. The total Pool Time may exceed four hundred (400) hours by employee contributions to this Pool. This time shall be used for the purpose of attending or handling a grievance meeting, negotiating session or arbitration; or attending AFSCME functions. Approval of such time shall be authorized by the AFSCME President, First Vice- President, Second Vice-President, or Secretary. Time will be charged in increments of one-half (1/2) hour. AFSCME may rollover not more than a total of two hundred (200) unused hours to a subsequent contract. . The employee that is to be off shall furnish an authorized request from AFSCME to his or her immediate supervisor, with reasonable advanced notice. This request will then be forwarded to the Department Director/Administrator, who shall then forward the request to the Chief Human Resources Officer for approval. Employees wishing to utilize this benefit are to use the established Union Pool Time Leave Request Form which will be available through the Human Resources Website, and shall also attach formal documentation from the Union for the meeting/function/activity causing the need for leave. It will be the responsibility of the Union to ensure that all their members are properly informed of activities, and that the proper steps are taken in order to be granted Union Pool Leave in order to participate in said activity. Employees receiving the Pool Time leave will be awarded leave hours based on the “cash value” of the leave. For purposes of negotiations, once the Union has informed the Chief Human Resources Officer who the negotiating members will be on behalf of the Union, the Chief Human Resources Officer will then inform management staff of these employees participation in the process. It will still be the responsibility of the Union Representatives to follow the proper protocol in requesting Union Pool Time for each negotiation session they wish to be considered for authorization to attend.
Union Pool Time. Union members shall maintain a minimum balance of 120 hours of union pool which may be drawn upon at the discretion of the union. Donations of vacation time to this pool shall be donated in equal hours as needed to maintain the 120 hour balance and processed in writing upon union forms. The union will notify the Fire Chief, or his/her designee, as to the disbursement of union pool time.
