The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
002
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BARGAINING AGENT
(Cite as: 16 V.S.A. § 1991)
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§ 1991. Selection of representation
(a) Teachers and administrators may select organizations to represent them on their negotiations
council in collective negotiations with the school board negotiations council. The
school board shall recognize an organization as the exclusive representative of the
teachers or of the administrators in the school district when that organization has
proved its claim to sole and exclusive representative status of the respective group
as provided in this chapter. The superintendent, the assistant superintendent, and
the principal shall not serve as negotiating agents for the teachers’ organization.
(b) When close or disputed questions of eligibility to vote and inclusion in the unit
to be represented by the teachers’ organization arise, the general principle to be
adhered to shall be that eligibility to vote and inclusion in that negotiating unit
will be limited to all teachers in the school district under contract and actually
engaged in full-time or part-time positions that are not that of administrator.
(c) The organizations selected to represent teachers or administrators shall represent
without discrimination or prejudice all of those eligible for inclusion in the negotiating
unit without regard to organizational affiliation or membership. (Added 1969, No. 127, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1969; amended 2007, No. 82, § 30; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 175, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)