ARTICLE 2

 

ORGANIZATIONAL SECURITY

 

2.1.  Maintenance of Membership

 

2.1.1   Employees who are members of the Association and have authorized, or who may authorize in the future, deductions of their Association dues initiation and/or assessment fees, shall have such dues and fees deducted from July 1, 1998 through expiration of Agreement.

 

2.2.            Service Fee

 

2.2.1   Unit members who are not members of the Association shall

pay a service fee equivalent to annual unified Association dues. Nonmembers shall pay the service fee in the same manner as membership. Such payment of a service fee shall be in effect from

July 1, 1998 through expiration of Agreement. The

Association may notify the District if a service fee payer is delinquent in direct payment to the Association, and the District shall begin automatic payroll deduction of the service fee for the remainder of that school year.

 

2.3.            Religious Exemption

 

2.3.1   Any unit member who is a member of a religious body whose traditional tenets or teachings include objections to joining or financially supporting employee organizations shall file a declaration to that effect with the Association and District and shall not be required to join or financially support the Association except that he/she shall pay, in lieu of a service fee, sums equal to such service fees to a non-religious, nonlabor-organization charitable fund exempt from taxation under 501 (c) (3) of Title 26 of the Internal Revenue Code.

 

 

2.3.2           Religious objectors may choose from one of the following qualifying

                    organizations as the recipient of their contributions:

 

2.3.2.1.          Children’s Hospital, Oakland

2.3.2.2.          Diablo Valley Scholarships

2.3.2.3.          Child Abuse Prevention Council

 

 

 

 

2.3.3   Religious objectors shall make a contribution equivalent to annual

unified Association dues and shall do so in the same manner as membership. Such payment of contribution shall be in effect from July 1, 1998 through expiration of Agreement. The Association may notify the District if a service fee payer is delinquent in providing proof of direct payment to one of the qualifying organizations above by October 15 of each year, and the District shall begin automatic payroll deduction of the contribution.

 

 

2.4.            Remittance of Dues

 

2.4.1   Amounts deducted pursuant to §2.2 and §2.3 shall be remitted promptly to the Association with an alphabetical list of the employees from whom deducted.

 

2.5.            Hold Harmless

 

2.5.1   The Association shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the District, against any court action and/or administrative action before Public Employment Relations Board challenging the legality or constitutionality of the agency fee provisions of this Agreement or their implementation.

 

2.5.2   The Association shall have the exclusive right to decide and determine whether any such action or proceeding referred to in §2.5 shall or shall not be compromised, resisted, defended, tried or appealed.