WAC 132S-30-024   Employer-employee relations -- Negotiations procedure.  Prior to the final adoption by the board of trustees of Community College District No. 19 of proposed community college district policies which are required by law to be negotiated, representatives of the duly elected academic employee organization shall have the right, after using the established administrative channels, to meet, confer, and negotiate with the board of trustees or its delegated representative to communicate the considered professional judgment of the academic staff. Nothing in this chapter, however, shall prevent any academic employee from appearing on his own behalf on matters relating to his employment relations with the community college district.

     When a policy which is required to be negotiated is proposed for adoption by the board of trustees of Community College District No. 19, the following procedural steps shall be utilized:

     (1) The college president shall, no later than twenty calendar days prior to the proposed adoption date, notify in writing the authorized representative of the academic employee organization that such proposed policy is to be considered for adoption.

     (2) Within four calendar days after such notification by the college president, the academic employees' representative shall contact the dean of instruction, in writing, of its intent to utilize administrative channels prior to the negotiation process. In the event the dean of instruction is not available, then the employees' representative may directly contact the college president during the same period of time.

     (3) After meeting with either the dean of instruction or the college president, the authorized representative of the academic employee organization must request within three calendar days of such meeting that he desires negotiations on the proposed policy. Such notification must be in writing and directed to the college president.

     (4) Within one week after such request for negotiations is made, either the board of trustees or its delegated representative shall meet with the representative of the academic employee organization and commence negotiations. In the event the employee's representative refuses to meet with the board's negotiator with this period of time, then such refusal shall be construed as a waiver of any rights to negotiate which academic employees may have by virtue of chapter 28B.52 RCW.

     (5) In the event there is no agreement as to the content of the proposed policy within twenty calendar days during negotiations, then either the academic employees' representative or the board of trustees' representative may, but are not required to, exercise any other remedies which may be available pursuant to chapter 28B.52 RCW.

     Nothing in these rules and regulations, however, shall preclude the board of trustees of Washington State Community College District No. 19 from adopting in final or emergency form any policy which by law is required to be negotiated.

     Failure by the representative of the academic employees organization to follow the procedural steps herein outlined shall be deemed a waiver of the employees' rights to negotiate under chapter 28B.52 RCW.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 28B.50.140 and chapter 28B.19 RCW. 82-21-012 (Order 82-1), § 132S-30-024, filed 10/11/82. Formerly WAC 132S-185-040.]