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4.04. Union Membership Revocation/Maintenance of Membership: Employees who are members of the Union may revoke their union membership at any time by sending written notice to the Union of their desire to drop their Union membership. Revocation of union membership does not revoke union dues authorization which may be only revoked as set forth below in Section 4 of this Article. 4.05. Union Dues Revocation: Any voluntary dues checkoff authorization shall be irrevocable, regardless of whether an employee has revoked union membership, for a period of one year from the date of execution of the dues checkoff authorization and for year to year thereafter, unless the employee gives the Employer and the Union written notice of revocation not less than ten (10) days and not more than twenty-five (25) days before the end of any yearly period Copies of employees' dues checkoff authorization cards are available from the Union upon request. 4.06. Employees may authorize the City to deduct voluntary contributions to Public Employees Organized to Promote Legislative Equality (PEOPLE) by payroll deduction (checkoff). Upon receipt of the employee's PEOPLE deduction authorization, the City shall make the deduction and remit monthly to PEOPLE all such deducted contributions. PEOPLE contributions shall be deducted and processed separately from dues or fair share deductions. ARTICLE 5 BULLETIN BOARDS 5.01. The Employer shall provide the Union four (4) Bulletin Boards; One (1) in the Wastewater Treatment Plant; One (1) in the Service Garage Lunchroom, One (1) in the Systems Office and One (1) in the Service Department Lunchroom, for notices of Union Business providing notices of Union meetings, elections and other Union related matters. All notices or other material posted must be signed and dated by a Union Officer or Steward. Upon request by the Employer, the Union shall remove any posting that is inflammatory or critical of the Employer, City Officials or of any other employees or persons, or which are political (partisan) in nature. ARTICLE 6 UNION REPRESENTATION 6.01. Stewards. Employees selected by the Union to act as Union representatives for the purpose of processing grievances under the Grievance Procedure shall be known as Stewards. The Employer will recognize a Chief Steward, and it will recognize one steward and one alternate from each of the following: (1) Wastewater Department; (2) Mechanics; (3) Service Department; (4) Wastewater Department - Systems. The steward shall represent employees on all three (3) shifts. The alternate steward shall be recognized when the regular steward is absent or otherwise not available. 6.02. Grievance Meelines/PrenaratiomProcessine. Employees who participate in meetings under Step I of the Grievance Procedure, during their scheduled working time, or other meetings scheduled by the Employer under the Grievance Procedure, during their scheduled working time, will be paid for time actually lost from their scheduled work time for the purpose of participating in such meetings. The investigation and processing of grievances by Union representatives during working time shall be limited to the last fifteen minutes of a shift. 3 4880-6940-6890. v.2