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ARTICLE 16 <br />GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE <br />16.1 The term "grievance" shall mean an allegation by a bargaining unit employee that <br />there has been a breach, misinterpretation, or unproper application of this agreement. <br />16.2 A grievance may be filed by any member of the bargaining unit. Where a group of <br />bargaining unit members desire to file a grievance involving a situation affecting more than one <br />member of the barga.ining unit in a similar manner, one member selected by such a group shall <br />process the grievance. Such grievance sha11 be defined as a group grievance. The names of each <br />memUer, on behalf of which the grievance is filed, shall be made available at the first hearing. <br />Group grievances shall be presented in the first instance to the supervisor common to a11 <br />employees in the group. The grievance procedure outlined in Section 16.5 shall be used <br />throughout. <br />163 All grievances must be processed and answered at the proper step in the <br />grievance. progression to be considered at the next step. Any grievance that is not timely <br />appealed to the next step of the procedure, will be deemed to have been settled on the basis of the <br />Employer's answer at the last completed step. <br />Time limits set forth herein may only be extended by mutual agreement of the parties. <br />T'he aggrieved may withdraw a grievance at any point by submitting, in writing, a sta.tement to <br />that affect, or by perrnitting the time requirements at any step to Iapse without fiirther appeal. <br />Any grievance not answered by the Employer or his designee within the stipulated time limits <br />shall be considered to have been appealed to the next step in the grievance procedure. <br />21 <br />?? ?. ?;?, ?.??? _ ???..:•. .. ?. , .._ ._.,?????ro??>a.?. .t. ? ?m.,,. .:k? ., , <br />I