(A) A labor organization certified by the State Employment Relations Board or recognized by the city is the exclusive representative of the employees of the city for the purpose of collective bargaining with respect to employment relations. Nevertheless, any agreements entered into involving union security or fair-share agreement must safeguard the rights of non-association for employees based on bona fide religious tenets or teachings of a church or a religious body of which the employee is a member. The employee shall pay an amount of money agreed upon through negotiations to a non-religious charity or to another charitable organization mutually agreed upon by the employee affected and the representative of the labor organization to which the employee would otherwise be required to pay dues. The employee shall furnish written proof to his or her employer that this has been done.
(B) Notwithstanding the provisions of division (A) above, an individual employee or group of employees at any time may present grievances to his or her employer and have the grievances adjusted without the intervention of the labor organization, if:
(1) The adjustment is not inconsistent with the terms of a collective bargaining contract or agreement then in effect; and
(2) The labor organization has been given opportunity to be present at the adjustment.
(C) Nothing in this section prevents the city from recognizing a labor organization which represents at least a majority of employees as an exclusive representative of the employees of the city when the Board has not designated the appropriate bargaining unit or when the Board has not certified an exclusive representative in accordance with O.R.S. 243.686.
(Prior Code, § 34.05) (Ord. 849, passed 5-15-1976)