Iowa Admin. Code r. 621-6.5
Voluntary settlement procedures
Effective Aug 10, 2017Published Aug 30, 2017[ARC 8953B, IAB 7/28/10, effective 9/1/10; ARC 2308C, IAB 12/9/15, effective 1/13/16; ARC 3278C, IAB 8/30/17, effective 8/10/17]Public Employment Relations Board
621—6.5(20) Voluntary settlement procedures.
- 6.5(1) Terms made public. Where the parties have reached a proposed (or “tentative”) collective bargaining agreement, the public employer shall make the terms of the agreement public.
- 6.5(2) Ratification or rejection by employee organization. Within seven days of the date of the tentative agreement, the employee organization shall conduct a ratification election on the tentative agreement. The employee organization shall give reasonable notice of the date, time and place of the election to the public employees; however, such notice shall be at least 24 hours prior to the election. The vote shall be by secret ballot, and the majority of votes cast will determine acceptance or rejection of the tentative agreement. Only members of the employee organization shall be entitled to vote; however, the employee organization may, pursuant to its internal procedures, extend voting rights to nonmember bargaining unit employees. The employee organization shall, within 24 hours of the conclusion of the election, serve notice on the public employer as to whether or not the proposed agreement has been ratified.
- 6.5(3) Acceptance or rejection by public employer. The public employer shall, within ten days of the tentative agreement, likewise meet to accept or reject the agreement, and shall within 24 hours of the acceptance or rejection serve notice on the employee organization of its acceptance or rejection of the proposed agreement; however, the public employer shall not be required to either accept or reject the tentative agreement if it has been rejected by the employee organization.
6.5(4) Time limits.
- a. The above time limits may be modified by a written mutual agreement between the public employer and the employee organization.
- b. The above time limits shall not apply to proposed agreements between the state and any bargaining unit of state employees.
[ARC 8953B, IAB 7/28/10, effective 9/1/10; ARC 2308C, IAB 12/9/15, effective 1/13/16; ARC 3278C, IAB 8/30/17, effective 8/10/17]