(A) The determination of the majority representative of city employees in an appropriate unit shall be made by secret ballot election conducted by the State Conciliation Service or by any other reasonable method which is agreeable to the city and the employee organizations concerned and is backed upon written proof, and is designed to ascertain the free choice of a majority of such employees. The employee organization found to represent a majority of the employees in an appropriate unit shall be granted formal recognition and is the only employee organization entitled to meet and confer in good faith on matters within the scope of representation for employees in such unit. This shall not preclude individual employees from consulting with management representatives on employer-employee relations matters of concern to them.
(B) The recognition rights of a majority representative which has been challenged shall be sustained or revoked through the process of a secret ballot election in a manner that utilizes the same procedures as outlined in the determination of formal recognition.
(C) The recognition rights of the majority representative designated in accordance with this section shall not be subject to challenge for a period of not less than 12 months following the date of such recognition.
(`64 Code, Sec. 2-42.11) (Ord. No. 1483)