Sec. 2-212. Appropriate units.
A. In order to avoid the harmful effects of over fragmentation, the broadest possible units are hereby established which will insure an effective representation of employee interests and will promote the effectiveness and efficiency of City operations for purposes of meeting and conferring under the provisions of this ordinance. Public employees within the following categories shall constitute an appropriate unit:
1. Employees in positions classed as "office" including clerical and pre-professional.
2. Employees in positions classed as "field" including labor, custodial, trades and equipment operation. There are hereby established the following appropriate field units:
a. Field Unit I—Sanitation Division of the Public Works Department; District Operations, Golf Course, and Special Operations Divisions of the Parks and Recreation Department (excluding library guards); Administrative Services Division of the City Clerk Department; Human Services and Aging Services Divisions of the Human Resources Department; Street Maintenance Division and Sign Manufacturing, Maintenance, Street Marking and Parking Meter Sections of the Street Transportation Department.
b. Field Unit II—Phoenix Convention Center Department; Aviation Department; Water Services Department; Engineering Department; Housing Conservation, Elderly Housing and Occupancy, Conventional Housing and Disbursed Housing Divisions of the Urban Neighborhood Improvement and Housing Department; Equipment Management and Facilities Maintenance Divisions of the Public Works Department; Library Department (library guards only); Management Information Systems Department; Real Estate and Materials Management Divisions of the Finance Department; Traffic Signal Construction and Maintenance Section of the Street Transportation Department.
The PERB shall determine whether any field classification within a department not listed above shall be included in Unit I or Unit II.
3. Police officers—Below the rank of Sergeant.
4. Firefighters—Up to and including the rank of Captain.
B. The PERB shall determine which positions covered by this ordinance shall be included within a particular appropriate unit as set forth above; and shall determine which positions shall be excluded from any appropriate unit through application of the definitions contained in Section 2-210 and terms of this section.
C. Notwithstanding subsection A(1) and A(2) of this section, the PERB shall, upon an appropriate petition to clarify, determine the appropriate field or office units when reorganization of the public employer or the addition or deletion of departments, divisions, activities, functions or services dictates a realignment of such units; provided, however, that there shall be one and no more than one office unit and two but no than two field units.
When due to reorganization of the public employer, the addition or deletion of departments, divisions, activities, functions or services, the field employees in a single division, activity, function or service are represented by more than one authorized representative, the public employer or either authorized field unit representative may petition the Board to clarify.
D. The PERB may not find any unit is appropriate if such unit includes, together with other employees, any individual employed as a police officer. (Ord. No. G-1532, § 4; Ord. No. G-1580, § 1; Ord. No. G-1754, § 3; Ord. No. G-3303, § 5; Ord. No. G-4419, § 5, 2002; Ord. No. G-4872, § 2, 2007; Ord. No. G-5444, § 3, 2009; Ord. No. G-5444, § 3, 2009)