1. The Board of Education of the Syracuse City School District, having determined the Association is supported by a majority of the employees in Unit No. 1 (Teachers and Ancillary Services) and was certified as said employees' negotiating agent on June 15, 1970, and having determined that the majority of former Unit 4 employees (Adult Vocational Programs Association) also desire the Associations continued representation, and further, the Association having requested the combination of said Units, hereby agrees to combine Unit 1 and Unit 4 and recognizes the Association as the exclusive representative of all employees in the Unit, and extends to the Association the following rights:
a. to exclusively represent the members in the Unit in negotiations regarding wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment;
b. to represent members in the settlement of grievances;
c. to membership dues deduction;
d. to unchallenged representation status for the duration of this Agreement with the exception that the statutory period of challenge shall be observed.
2. During the period of recognition hereunder, the Board agrees not to negotiate in any way with any other organization representing or attempting or seeking to represent, or claiming to represent, employees in the negotiating Unit represented by the Association.
3. In the event that any competing employee organization claims the right to represent the employees in said Unit, the selection of employee representative shall be determined in accordance with the New York State Public Employees Fair Employment Act (“Taylor Law”).
The Association agrees and affirms that it does not have, and will not assert, the right to strike against the District, to assist or participate in any such strike, or to impose an obligation to conduct, assist, or participate in such a strike.
