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AGREEMENT
<br />This Agreement is entered into between the City of Lakewood, Ohio, hereinafter referred to as
<br />the "City," and Western Cuyahoga Lodge No. 25, Fraternal Order of Police, Patrol Officers,
<br />Lakewood Division, herein after referred to as the "FOP Patrol Officers."
<br />The purpose of this Agreement is to provide a fair and responsible method of enabling
<br />employees covered by this Agreement to participate, through representation, in the establishment
<br />of terms and conditions of their employment, and to establish a peaceful procedure for the
<br />resolution of all differences between the parties.
<br />ARTICLE 1
<br />The Administration recognizes the FOP as the sole and exclusive bargaining representative for a
<br />unit comprised of all full-time, sworn law enforcement personnel below the rank of Sergeant in
<br />the City of Lakewood, for the purpose of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay,
<br />wages, hours of work, and all other conditions of employment.
<br />ARTICLE 2 NON-DISCRIMINATION
<br />Both the City and the FOP recognize their respective responsibilities under the Federal and State
<br />Civil Rights Law, Fair Employment Practice Acts, and other similar constitutional and statutory
<br />requirements. Therefore, both the City and the FOP hereby affirm their commitments, legal and
<br />moral, not to discriminate, in any manner, relating to employment on the basis of race, color,
<br />creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, gender identity/expression, genetic information,
<br />military status, veteran status, sexual orientation, union membership or activity, or ancestry. The
<br />FOP shall share equally, with the City, the responsibility for applying this provision of the
<br />Agreement.
<br />ARTICLE 3 CHECK -OFF
<br />3.01 The City will deduct, on a monthly basis, dues from the pay of employees covered by this
<br />Agreement, upon receipt from the FOP of individually, written authorization cards voluntarily
<br />executed by an employee for that purpose, and bearing the employee's signature, provided that
<br />any employee shall have the right to revoke such authorization, pursuant to the provisions of
<br />Section 4117 of the Ohio Revised Code.
<br />3.02 Deductions under this article shall be made during the first pay period of each month, but
<br />if the employee's pay for that period is insufficient to cover FOP dues, the City will make a
<br />deduction from the pay earned during the next period or a subsequent period.
<br />3.03 All deductions under this article, accompanied by a list of all employees for whom
<br />deductions have been made, shall be transmitted to the FOP no later than the fifteenth (151h) day
<br />following the end of the pay period in which the deduction is made, and, upon receipt, the FOP
<br />shall assume full responsibility for the disposition of all funds deducted.
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