ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY

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Bill No. 95-79

AN ORDINANCE to repeal and re-enact, with amendments,
Sections 1-252 and 1-256 of the Anne Arundel County Code
(1967 Edition and Supplements), Title 1, "Administration",
Subtitle 2, "Personnel", Article IV, "Employees' Relations",
to provide that Anne Arundel County may include in a
memorandum of agreement with an employee organization which
has been certified as an exclusive representative of
employees, a provision to require certain employees in such
units who elect not to become or remain members of the
certified employee organization to pay a service fee as a
condition of employment in a certain amount and for certain
purposes; and to provide further a right of check-off of
dues or service fees to any certified employee organization
upon certain conditions and for a certain period of time;
and to provide further that nothing in the "Employees'
Relations" law shall preclude the County from including in
a memorandum of agreement with a certified employee
organization a provision to require certain employees in an
appropriate representation unit who elect not to become or
remain members of the certified employee organization to pay
a service fee as a condition of employment in a certain
amount and for certain purposes; and matters related
thereto.

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Employee Relations law of Anne
Arundel County, the employee organization designated as the
certified exclusive representative in an appropriate
representation unit covered by the said Employee Relations
law, is declared to be "the exclusive representative" of all
employees in such units; and

WHEREAS, the said employee organizations have the duty
and responsibility under the said law to represent all
employees in the aforesaid representation unit, irrespective
of union membership, fairly, and without discrimination, in
the negotiation, administration and implementation of the
terms of the memorandum of agreement and all modification
and amendments thereto, including related proceedings before
a mediator or fact-finder; in the processing of grievances;
in the conduct of disciplinary proceedings and in the appeal
thereof; in the protection and improvement of civil service
rights; and in any and all other proceedings and matters for
which the employee organization is the exclusive
representative as a result of its certification; and

WHEREAS, public policy of Anne Arundel County
necessitates that stability in the bargaining relationships
between the County as an employer and the certified employee
organizations, as the exclusive collective negotiating
agents of its employees, be strengthened so as to enhance
and assure the ability of the said freely chosen exclusive
representatives of County employees to effectuate collective
bargaining, and otherwise fairly represent employees during
the period of such representative status, thereby improving
the collective bargaining process and increasing the