8925-17 Collective Bargaining Agreement - Dispatchers

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ARTICLE 1 PURPOSE 1.01 This Agreement is made between the City of Lakewood, Ohio hereinafter referred to as the "City," and Ohio Fraternal Order of Police, Ohio Labor Council, Inc. (FOP /OLC), hereinafter referred to as the "Union." The "employee" or "employees" where used herein refers to all regular full -time employees in the bargaining unit. The purpose of this Agreement is to provide a fair and responsible method of enabling employees covered by this Agreement to participate through Union representation in the establishment of terms and conditions of their employment and to establish a peaceful procedure for the resolution of all differences between the parties. ARTICLE 2 RECOGNITION 2.01 The FOP /OLC is recognized as the sole and exclusive representative for a bargaining unit of all regular full -time Dispatcher employees in the Department of Public Safety for the purpose of establishing terms and conditions of employment. The City will not recognize any other Union, organization, or person as the representative for any of the Dispatcher employees. ARTICLE 3 NON - DISCRIMINATION 3.01 Both the City and the Union recognize their respective responsibilities under the Federal and State Civil Rights Laws, fair employment practice acts, and other similar constitutional and statutory requirements. Therefore, both the City and the Union hereby reaffirm their commitments, legal and moral, not to discriminate in any manner relating to employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, gender identity /expression, genetic information, military status, veteran status, sexual orientation, union membership or activity, or ancestry. 3.02 The City recognizes the right of all Dispatchers to be free to join the Union. The City agrees there shall be no discrimination, interference, restraint, coercion, or reprisal by the City against any employee or any applicant for employment because of Union membership. ARTICLE 4 CHECI{ -OFF 4.01 The Employer agrees to deduct from the wages and salaries of bargaining unit members' dues required by the FOP /OLC by payroll deduction. All members of the bargaining unit shall either become dues paying members of the FOP /OLC, or as a condition of continued employment, remit to the FOP /OLC a fair share in the amount set by the FOP /OLC per person per month in accordance with the provisions of Ohio Revised Code 4117.09(c), starting with the sixty -first (61st) day of employment with the employer or the execution date of this Agreement, whichever comes first. 4.02 Dues Fair Share Fees shall be paid over by the employer once each month to the FOP /OLC at 222 East Town Street, Columbus, Ohio, 43215, or such other address as set by the FOP /OLC from time to time.