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CA Pub Util Code § 99563.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 4 - Rights, Obligations, Prohibitions, and Unfair Labor Practices|Section 99563.7.

99563.7.  It shall be unlawful for the transit district employer to do any of the following:(a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate or threaten to discriminate against employees, or otherwise to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees because of their exercise of rights guaranteed by this chapter. For purposes of this subdivision, “employee” includes an applicant for employment or reemployment.(b) Deny to employee organizations rights guaranteed to them by this chapter.(c) Refuse or fail to meet and confer with an exclusive representative.(d) Dominate or interfere with the formation or administration of any employee organization, or contribute financial or other support to it, or in any way encourage employees to join any organization in preference to another. However, subject to rules and regulations adopted by the board pursuant to Section 99561, an employer shall not be prohibited from permitting employees to engage in meeting and conferring or consulting during working hours without loss of pay or benefits.(e) Refuse to participate in good faith in the impasse procedure set forth in Article 9 (commencing with Section 99568).(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99563.8 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 4 - Rights, Obligations, Prohibitions, and Unfair Labor Practices|Section 99563.8.

99563.8.  It shall be unlawful for an employee organization to:(a) Cause or attempt to cause the transit district employer to violate Section 99563.7.(b) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate or threaten to discriminate against employees, or otherwise to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees because of their exercise of rights guaranteed by this chapter.(c) Refuse or fail to meet and confer with the transit district employer.(d) Refuse to participate in good faith in the impasse procedure set forth in Article 9 (commencing with Section 99568).(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99564 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification|Section 99564.

99564.  An employee organization may become the exclusive representative for the employees of an appropriate unit for purposes of meeting and conferring by filing a request with a transit district employer alleging that a majority of the employees in an appropriate unit wish to be represented by the organization and asking the employer to recognize it as the exclusive representative. The request shall describe the grouping of jobs or positions that constitute the unit claimed to be appropriate and shall certify that proof of majority support has been submitted to either the board or to a mutually agreed upon third party. Notice of any such request shall immediately be posted conspicuously on all employee bulletin boards in each facility of the employer in which members of the unit claimed to be appropriate are employed.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99564.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification|Section 99564.1.

99564.1.  The transit district employer shall grant a request for recognition filed pursuant to Section 99564 except in one of the following circumstances:(a) The employer reasonably doubts that the employee organization has majority support or reasonably doubts the appropriateness of the requested unit. In that case the employer shall notify the board which shall conduct a representation election pursuant to Section 99564.4 unless subdivision (c) or (d) applies.(b) Another employee organization either files with the employer a challenge to the appropriateness of the unit or submits a competing claim of representation within 15 workdays of the posting of notice of the written request. If the claim is evidenced by the support that at least 30 percent of the members of the proposed unit, a question of representation shall be deemed to exist and the board shall conduct a representation election pursuant to Section 99564.4, or if the claim is evidenced by the support of at least 10 percent of the members of the proposed unit, the board shall conduct inquiries and investigations or hold hearings that it deems necessary in order to decide the questions raised by the claim and may conduct a representation election pursuant to Section 99564.4. Evidence of that support shall be submitted to either the board or to a mutually agreed upon third party.(c) There is currently in effect a lawful written memorandum of understanding between the employer and another employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive representative of any employees included in the unit described in the request for recognition, unless the request for recognition is filed not more than 120 days and not less than 90 days prior to the expiration date of such memorandum of understanding. However, if a memorandum of understanding has been in effect for three years or more, there shall be no restriction as to the time of filing the request.(d) Within the previous 12 months either another employee organization has been lawfully recognized or certified as the exclusive representative of any employees included in the unit described in the request for recognition, or a majority of the votes cast in a representation election held pursuant to Section 99564.4 were cast for “no representation.”(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99564.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification|Section 99564.2.

99564.2.  A petition may be filed with the board, in accordance with its rules and regulations, requesting it to investigate and decide the question of whether employees have selected or wish to select an exclusive representative or to determine the appropriateness of a unit, by one of the following:(a) An employee organization alleging that it has filed a request for recognition as an exclusive representative with an employer and that the request has been denied or has not been acted upon within 30 days after the filing of the request.(b) An employee organization alleging that it has filed a competing claim of representation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 99564.1.(c) An employee organization wishing to be certified by the board as the exclusive representative. The petition for certification as the exclusive representative in an appropriate unit shall include proof of a 30-percent showing of interest designating the organization as the exclusive representative of the employees.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99564.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification|Section 99564.3.

99564.3.  A petition may be filed with the board, in accordance with its rules and regulations, requesting it to investigate and decide the question of whether the employees wish to decertify an exclusive representative or to reconsider the appropriateness of a unit. The petition may allege that the employees in an appropriate unit no longer desire a particular employee organization as their exclusive representative. The petition shall include proof of a 30-percent showing of interest indicating support for another organization or lack of support for the incumbent exclusive representative.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99564.4 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification|Section 99564.4.

99564.4.  (a) Upon receipt of a petition filed pursuant to Section 99564.2, the board shall conduct inquiries and investigations or hold hearings as it deems necessary in order to decide the questions raised by the petition. The determination of the board may be based upon the evidence adduced in the inquiries, investigations, or hearings. If the board finds on the basis of the evidence that a question of representation exists, or a question of representation is deemed to exist pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 99564.1, it shall order that an election shall be conducted by secret ballot placing on the ballot all employee organizations evidencing support of at least 10 percent of the members of an appropriate unit, and it shall certify the results of the election on the basis of which ballot choice received a majority of the valid votes cast. There shall be printed on the initial ballot the choice of “no representation.” If, at any election, no choice on the ballot receives a majority of the votes cast, a runoff election shall be conducted. The ballot for the runoff election shall provide for a selection between the two choices receiving the largest and second largest number of valid votes cast in the election.(b) No election shall be held and the petition shall be dismissed whenever either of the following exists:(1) There is currently in effect a memorandum of understanding between the employer and another employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive representative of any employees included in the unit described in the petition, unless the petition is filed not more than 120 days and not less than 90 days prior to the expiration date of the memorandum. However, if the memorandum has been in effect for three years or more, there shall be no restriction as to time of filing the petition.(2) Within the previous 12 months either an employee organization other than the petitioner has been lawfully recognized or certified as the exclusive representative of any employees included in the unit described in the petition, or a majority of the votes cast in a representation election held pursuant to subdivision (a) were cast for “no representation.”(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99564.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification|Section 99564.5.

99564.5.  The employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive representative shall represent all employees in the unit, fairly and impartially. A breach of this duty shall be deemed to have occurred if the employee organization’s conduct in representation is arbitrary, discriminatory, or in bad faith.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99565 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 6 - Unit Determination|Section 99565.

99565.  (a) In each case where the appropriateness of a unit is an issue, in determining an appropriate unit, the board shall take into consideration all of the following criteria:(1) The internal and occupational community of interest among the employees, including, but not limited to, the extent to which they perform functionally related services or work toward established common goals, the history of employee representation with the employer, the extent to which the employees belong to the same employee organization, the extent to which the employees have common skills, working conditions, job duties, or similar educational or training requirements, and the extent to which the employees have common supervision.(2) The effect that the projected unit will have on the meet and confer relationships, emphasizing the availability and authority of employer representatives to deal effectively with employee organizations representing the unit, and taking into account factors such as work location, the numerical size of the unit, the relationship of the unit to organizational patterns of the transit district employer, and the effect on the existing classification structure or existing classification schematic of dividing a single class or single classification schematic among two or more units.(3) The effect of the proposed unit on efficient operations of the employer and the compatibility of the unit with the responsibility of the transit district employer and its employees to serve the public.(4) The number of employees and classifications in a proposed unit, and its effect on the operations of the employer, on the objectives of providing the employees the right to effective representation, and on the meet and confer relationship.(5) The impact on the meet and confer relationship created by fragmentation of employee groups or any proliferation of units among the employees of the employer.(b) The board shall not determine that any unit is appropriate if it includes, together with other employees, employees who are defined as peace officers pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 830.2 of the Penal Code.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99566 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 7 - Organizational Security|Section 99566.

99566.  Subject to the limitations set forth in this chapter, organizational security shall be within the scope of representation.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99566.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 7 - Organizational Security|Section 99566.2.

99566.2.  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (i) of Section 99560.1, Section 99566, or any other provision of this chapter, any employee who is a member of a religious body whose traditional tenets or teachings include objections to joining or financially supporting employee organizations shall not be required to join, maintain membership in, or financially support any employee organization as a condition of employment except as provided in subdivision (b).(b) The employee may be required, in lieu of a service fee, to pay sums equal to the service fee either to a nonreligious, nonlabor organization, charitable fund exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the Internal Revenue Code, chosen by the employee from a list of at least three such funds, designated in the organizational security arrangement, or if the arrangement fails to designate funds, then to any such fund chosen by the employee. Either the employee organization or the transit district employer may require that proof of the payments be made on an annual basis to the transit district employer as a condition of continued exemption from the requirement of financial support to the recognized employee organization. If the employee who holds conscientious objections pursuant to this section requests the employee organization to use the grievance procedure or arbitration procedure on the employee’s behalf, the employee organization is authorized to charge the employee for the reasonable cost of using that procedure.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99566.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 7 - Organizational Security|Section 99566.3.

99566.3.  Every recognized or certified employee organization shall keep an adequate itemized record of its financial transactions and shall make available annually, to the board and to the employees who are members of the organization, within 60 days after the end of its fiscal year, a detailed written financial report of its financial transactions in the form of a balance sheet and an operating statement, signed and certified as to accuracy by its president and treasurer, or corresponding principal officers. In the event of noncompliance with this section, any employee within the organization may petition the board for an order compelling compliance, or the board may issue a compliance order on its motion.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99567 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 8 - Rights-Disputes Arbitration|Section 99567.

99567.  (a) An employer and an exclusive representative who enter into a written memorandum of understanding may agree to procedures for final and binding arbitration of disputes that may arise under the memorandum of understanding or between the parties.(b) Where a party to a memorandum of understanding is aggrieved by the failure, neglect, or refusal of the other party to proceed to arbitration pursuant to the procedures provided in the memorandum, the aggrieved party may bring proceedings pursuant to Title 9 (commencing with Section 1280) of Part 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure for a court order directing that the arbitration proceed pursuant to the procedures provided in the memorandum of understanding.(c) An arbitration award made pursuant to this section shall be final and binding upon the parties and may be enforced by a court pursuant to Title 9 (commencing with Section 1280) of Part 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure.(d) The board shall submit a list of names of arbitrators to employers and employee organizations upon their mutual request. Nothing in this subdivision shall preclude the parties from mutually agreeing to some other means of selecting an arbitrator. The board shall also, if mutually requested to do so, designate an arbitrator to hear and decide the rights dispute.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99568 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 9 - Impasse Procedures|Section 99568.

99568.  The impasse procedures contained in Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 1137) of Part 3 of Division 2 of the Labor Code shall govern any impasse proceedings under this chapter.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99569 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 10 - Public Notice|Section 99569.

99569.  (a) All initial proposals of exclusive representatives and of transit district employers, that relate to matters within the scope of representation, shall be presented at a public meeting of the transit district employer and thereafter shall be public records.(b) Meeting and conferring shall not commence on an initial proposal until a reasonable time has elapsed after the submission of the proposal to enable the public to become informed and the public has the opportunity to express itself regarding the proposal at a meeting of the transit district employer.(c) After the public has had the opportunity to express itself, the transit district employer shall, at a meeting that is open to the public, adopt a proposal, including any changes to its initial proposal that the transit district employer deems appropriate based on the public’s comments.(d) New subjects of meeting and conferring arising after the presentation of initial proposals shall be made public within 24 hours. If a vote is taken on a new subject by the transit district employer, the vote on the subject by each member voting shall also be made public within 24 hours.(e) The board may adopt regulations for the purpose of implementing this section, which are consistent with the intent of the section, that the public be informed of the issues that are being met and conferred upon and have full opportunity to express their views on the issues to the transit district employer, and to know of the positions of the transit district employer.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99570 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 11 - Miscellaneous|Section 99570.

99570.  The following proceedings set forth in this section are exempt from the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code), unless the parties mutually agree otherwise:(a) Any meeting and conferring discussion between a transit district employer and a recognized or certified employee organization.(b) Any meeting of a mediator with either party or both parties to the meeting and conferring process.(c) Any hearing, meeting, or investigation conducted by a factfinder or arbitrator.(d) Any executive session of the transit district employer or between the transit district employer and its designated representatives for the purpose of discussing its position respecting meeting and conferring or regarding any matter within the scope of representation or instructing its designated representatives.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99570.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 11 - Miscellaneous|Section 99570.1.

99570.1.  No memorandum of understanding shall contravene any federal or state law, including rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to such laws, prohibiting discrimination in employment.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Pub Util Code § 99570.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 10 - TRANSIT DISTRICTS|PART 11 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL PUBLIC TRANSIT|CHAPTER 7 - Transit Employer-Employee Relations|ARTICLE 11 - Miscellaneous|Section 99570.2.

99570.2.  If any provision of this chapter or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this chapter, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)