DUES AND DEDUCTIONS The Union shall have the regular dues of its bargaining unit members deducted from their paychecks under procedures as follows: The Union is solely responsible for distributing to, and collecting from, employees the dues and voluntary deduction authorization forms. It is the employees’ responsibility to submit requests to start or stop deductions directly to the Union and not to the County. The Union is responsible for maintaining the deduction forms from individual employees. Copies of an individual employee’s deduction authorization need not be provided to the County unless a dispute arises about the existence or terms of the authorization. Questions regarding Union membership, dues amounts, and payroll deductions must be directed to the Union and not the County. The Union will provide to the County an updated, certified deduction list of bargaining unit members who have provided written authorization for deductions. The County will make deductions for only those employees who are in the bargaining unit in accordance with such certified list. The Union will notify the County of any change to an employee’s deductions, including starting and stopping deductions, or validly cancelling or revoking a deduction authorization, and will provide the County on a weekly basis, an updated, certified deduction list noting any specific changes from the last list provided to the County. The County will implement the change(s) in the pay period following the County’s receipt of such notification. The Union will pay the County’s standard administrative fees for payroll deductions, which is currently estimated at $0.03 per employee for all dues paying bargaining unit members, per pay period. Upon written notice from the County, the Union agrees to reopen and meet within 30 days of notice to increase administrative fees. Following the County’s deductions of these administrative fees, the County will electronically transmit the balance of funds to the Union no later than thirty (30) days after the deductions occur. The Union shall indemnify, defend, and hold the County, its officers, agents, and employees harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, losses, defense costs, suits, or other action or liability of any kind or nature arising from this section, including, claims for or related to employee authorizations, revocations, deductions made, cancelled, or changed in reliance on the Union’s representations and certifications regarding employee dues deduction authorizations. This section of the MOU is not grievable.
