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• Welcome to the Association
• Are we a Union or an Employees Association
• How Does Our Association Defend Our Rights?

Association and Public Employee Rights and Strategies
As a member of your association, you have tools available to you for appealing unfair discipline or enforcing your rights on the job.

• What is the Difference Between a Problem and a Grievance?
• Skelly Rights: Due Process Prior to Major Discipline
• What are my Skelly Rights?
• The Interactive Process:  What is it and how do employees benefit from it?
• When do I have the Right to a Representative?
• What is an MOU - a Union Contract
• Fiscal Crisis: When Can the City "Break Open" our Contract?
• The MMBA, Impasse and Fact Finding:  City Employees Bargaining Law
• What is a Grievance?
• Retirement Benefits:  A Vested Right
• When Can My Association "Trade Away" my Benefits?
• The FLSA:  Overtime Rights for ALL employees
• "But I'm Sick! You Mean They can Fire Me?"
• When do you need Workers' Compensation lawyer?
• What is the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)?


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BARGAINING TEAM TRAINING: NEGOTIATIONS GUIDELINES AND MEMBERSHIP SURVEYS
Team training involves researching employees' needs, analyzing the law, the city rules, surveying the membership, selecting the team, writing and reviewing the package, establishing ground rules, reviewing individual proposals, table etiquette, trading, using the membership, the media, the Council, sustaining communications, management tactics, mediation and fact-finding.  Finally, ratification or . . .

ASSOCIATION BOARD TRAINING
Legal responsibilities of organization, including Duty of Fair Representation. How to represent co-workers in grievances & disciplinary matters. Laws affecting "local government" employees. Role of Association committees.  Role of professional staff and/or attorneys. Obligation to non-members. How to handle conflicts between co-workers, complaints from public, relations with City Council, etc.

AGENCY SHOP:  “NO FREE LUNCH” FOR NON-MEMBERS
Association right to not to pursue cases that lack legal merit and right to assign representative of choice to cases.

SAMPLE BYLAWS FOR PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATIONS
Very simple, straightforward bylaws with emphasis on representative democracy and enabling organization to conduct business legally and efficiently.

DOCTOR'S DESIGNATION FORM
Very important that each employee designate your own doctor in case of injury on the job.  Otherwise, you will be treated by a doctor who works for the city/district and not you.  If you are making a medical claim against the City, will the city doctor have your interests as his priority?

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF OUR EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION?
Explains benefits of having employee organization – in both the short term and long term.  Helps answer member’s / non-member’s questions about Why Belong?

WELCOME TO THE ASSOCIATION
Document for your association to hand out to new employees or non-members, explaining the services your organization provides. Also: information about role of your Association in the workplace.