No employee shall be prevented from wearing pins or buttons which identify membership the Association or its affiliates. B. Association Rights 1. Any employee who is a member of the Association, or who has applied for membership, may sign and deliver to the Board an assignment authorizing deduction of membership dues in the Association and its affiliates as specified on an authorization form. The amount of this deduction will be transmitted to the Association monthly. The Association agrees that the Board is expressly prohibited from any involvement in the collection of fines, penalties or special assessments, and further provides that the Association shall indemnify and save harmless the Board from any and all claims, demands, suits and costs incurred in the connection with any such claim, demand or suit resulting from any reasonable action taken or omitted by the Board for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this section.
Items placed on bulletin boards are to be nonpolitical in nature.
The Association agrees that the bulletin boards will be used for legal purposes in communications with the members of the bargaining unit, and that the communications will not be derogatory of the Board or Board representative. The Association agrees that the placing of any literature on bulletin boards will be handled in such a manner as not to disrupt the operations of the school in any way. The Association recognizes that the Board will remove any items from bulletin boards not meeting these requirements and will notify the Association representatives. The parties agree that normal Association business or activities can be conducted by individual employees of the Board only during the time the employee is not on duty. The parties agree that the Association may communicate with its bargaining unit members by placing materials in individual mail boxes when available, or in group boxes provided in individual buildings or work sites.