B. Whenever the City hires employees, as a condition of continued employment,
they shall become, sixty (60) calendar days after their employment, members of the Union,
except those employees excluded in paragraph A above.
es The City agrees that it will not discriminate against, intimidate, or coerce any
employee in the exercise of his rights to bargain collectively through the Union on account of
membership in or activities on behalf of the Union. The City agrees that it will deal with the
Union for the purposes of bargaining with respect to wages, hours of duty and working
conditions of members of the Bargaining Unit.
D. Should there be a dispute between an employee and the Union over the matter of
an employee’s Union membership, the Union agrees to hold the City harmless in any such
dispute.
ARTICLE 3_- NON-DISCRIMINATION
It is also agreed that factors such as sex, race, color, national origin, religion, lawful political or
employee’s organization affiliation, age, marital status or non-disqualifying disability are not
considerations in evaluating the qualifications of an employee or prospective employee.
ARTICLE 4 - MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
Except as otherwise expressly and specifically provided in this agreement, the Union recognizes
that the direction of the Division’s operations; the determination of the methods and means by
which such operations are to be conducted; the supervision, management and control of the
Division’s work force; the right to hire, promote, transfer, and layoff employees; the right,
lawfully and for just cause, to demote, discipline, suspend or discharge employees; the right to
determine the hours and schedules of work and the work tasks and standards of performance for
employees, and all other rights and responsibilities not specifically provided in this agreement,
shall remain the function of Management and the Board of Public Works, all in accordance RSA
Ch. 273-A. It shall be the right of the Union, however, to present and process grievances of its
members whose wages, working conditions or other rights expressly and specifically provided in
this Agreement are violated, by Management or the Board.
ARTICLE 5 - DUES DEDUCTION
A. The City agrees to deduct the official dues of said Union from the wages of each
employee who is a member of the Union, and pay the total amount of dues so collected to the
Treasurer of Local #365 of the Union the week the deductions are made.
B. In the event that the employee has no pay coming to him or her, or the check is
not large enough to satisfy the dues deduction, no deduction will be made for that pay period.
C. In no case will the City collect fines or assessments for the Union other than dues
as provided under A, above.
