A. Public employees shall have the right to form, join and participate in any employee organization of their own choosing, or to refrain from forming, joining, or participating in same. Public employees shall not hold any elective or appointive office in any employee organization until the probationary period following their initial employment in a permanent position in the classified service has been successfully completed.

B. Public employees shall have the right to be represented by an employee organization of their own choosing, to meet and confer through an authorized employee organization with their public employer in the determination of wages, hours and working conditions, and to be represented in the determination of grievances arising thereunder.

C. This ordinance does not prevent any public employee from presenting his or her own grievance, in person or by legal counsel, to the public employer and having such grievance adjusted without the intervention of the authorized employee organization, if such an adjustment is not inconsistent with the terms of a current memorandum of understanding.

D. Any authorized employee organization shall be eligible, upon agreement with the public employer, to have its periodic membership dues deducted and collected by the public employer from the salaries of those employees who present signed cards, in a form satisfactory to the public employer, authorizing the deduction of such dues. This deduction may be revoked by the employee at any time during the first week in January, or the first week in July, upon written notice of such revocation furnished to the public employer by the employee.

E. The public employer may not entertain a written authorization on behalf of any other employee organization from any employee in said unit for the deduction and collection of dues.

F. Confidential, managerial and professional employees and supervisors, judges and elected officials shall not be represented by any employee organization, nor shall such employees take an active role in the policy-making activities of an employee organization, nor shall such employees participate directly or indirectly in the meet and confer process except as representatives or assistants to the public employer. (Ord. No. G-1532, § 6; Ord. No. G-1754, § 5; Ord. No. G-2404, § 4; Ord. No. G-3303, § 7)