File #: 18620    Version: 0 Name: Public Health Specialist positions - Public Works Department
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 9/29/2014 In control: Legislature As A Whole
On agenda: 9/29/2014 Final action: 10/6/2014
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Recognition Agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 53, as the exclusive representative for public health specialist positions in the Public Works Department.
Sponsors: Scott Burnett, Theresa Garza Ruiz, Dan Tarwater III, Crystal Williams, Kenneth T. Bacchus, Dennis Waits
Indexes: ELECTRICAL WORKERS, LOCAL UNION NO. 53 , PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC WORKS
Attachments: 1. 18620adopt.pdf, 2. 18620bu.pdf, 3. 18620AGMT
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
 
 
Title
A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Recognition Agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 53, as the exclusive representative for public health specialist positions in the Public Works Department.
 
 
Intro
RESOLUTION NO. 18620, September 29, 2014
 
INTRODUCED BY      Scott Burnett, Theresa Garza Ruiz, Dan Tarwater, Crystal Williams, Kenneth T. Bacchus, and Dennis Waits, County Legislators
 
 
Body
WHEREAS, certain employees within the Public Works Department in the position of public health specialist have petitioned the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 53 (IBEW) to represent them; and,
 
WHEREAS, the County Executive is willing to recognize the IBEW as the exclusive bargaining representative in order to discuss salaries, benefits, and general working conditions for all employees in the covered positions; and,
 
WHEREAS, one of the first steps in the process of reaching agreement on a Memorandum of Understanding between the County and the IBEW is to have the IBEW recognized as the exclusive bargaining representative for the employees; and,
 
WHEREAS, the attached Recognition Agreement is a suitable mechanism by which to permit the County and the IBEW to engage in negotiations concerning working conditions of its members; now therefore,
 
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the  County Executive is hereby authorized to execute the attached Recognition Agreement recognizing the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 53; and,
 
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the parties are to provide the Legislature with any negotiated agreement for its review and for whatever action the Legislature deems appropriate...Enacted and Approved
Effective Date:  This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.
 
 
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
 
 
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Chief Deputy County Counselor                  County Counselor
 
Certificate of Passage
 
I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution No.  18620 of September 29, 2014, was duly passed on October 6, 2014 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:
 
 
Yeas _______7_______                  Nays _____0________
 
 
Abstaining ___0_____                  Absent ___2________
 
 
 
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Date                                          Mary Jo Spino
Clerk of Legislature