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University Bargaining Unit Determination
AFSCME(BL) 7.6 • AFSCME(IN) 11.8 • CWA 1.3 • PA/SS 11.3

Revised January 2003

Employees covered by this policy
This policy applies to all Staff employees at IU.

Policy

1. This policy is administered by University Human Resource Services and is subject to Board of Trustees approved revisions.

2. The university is committed to ensuring uniform and economical management of negotiations and administration of employee representative bargaining units.

3. The Board of Trustees has approved a policy whereby the university recognizes the following existing bargaining units:

   1. AFSCME Local 832 representing all service-maintenance employees working on the Bloomington campus.

   2. AFSCME Local 1477 representing all service-maintenance employees on the Indianapolis and South Bend campuses.

   3. CWA Local 4730 representing all support staff employees on the Bloomington campus and clerical and technical employees on the Northwest campus, with the exception of confidential employees.

4. Any additional employee units seeking recognition as an exclusive representative must become part of one of the bargaining units listed in 3. above.

5. Employees of a single campus will not be considered an appropriate bargaining unit. Such employees can only obtain exclusive bargaining rights by voting to join one of the three existing units described above.

6. Dependent on their geographical location, service-maintenance employees on any campus that are not currently represented may vote to opt into the Bloomington or Indianapolis-South Bend unit. Support staff and clerical and technical employees on any campus who are not currently represented may vote to opt into the Bloomington-Northwest unit.