2.52.090 Standards for determination of appropriate units.
A. The policy objectives in determining the appropriateness of units shall be the effect of a proposed unit on (a) the efficient operations of the town and its compatibility with the primary responsibility of the town and its employees to effectively and economically serve the public, and (b) providing employees with effective representation based on recognized community of interest considerations. These policy objectives require that the appropriate unit shall be the broadest feasible grouping of positions that share an identifiable community of interest. Factors to be considered shall be:
1. Similarity of the general kinds of work performed, types of qualifications required, and the general working conditions;
2. History of representation in the town and similar employment; except, however, that no unit shall be deemed to be an appropriate unit solely on the basis of the extent to which employees in the proposed unit have organized;
3. Consistency with the organizational patterns of the town;
4. Number of employees and classifications, and the effect on the administration of employer-employee relations created by the fragmentation of classifications and proliferation of units;
5. Effect on the classification structure and impact on the stability of the employer-employee relationship of dividing a single or related classification among two or more units.
B. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, management and confidential employees shall not be included in any unit; supervisory employees may be included in a unit consisting solely of supervisory employees; and professional employees shall not be denied the right to be represented in a separate unit from nonprofessional employees.
C. The employee relations officer shall, after notice to and consultation with affected employee organizations, allocate new classifications or positions and retain, reallocate or delete modified classifications or positions from units in accordance with the provisions of this section. (Ord. 377 § 8, 1980)