§ 35.034. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RIGHTS; ORGANIZATION AND REPRESENTATION.

(A)

Public employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in, or to refrain from forming, joining, or participating in any employee organization of their own choosing.

(B)

Public employees shall have the right to be represented by any employee organization of their own choosing, to negotiate collectively through a certified bargaining agent with their public employer in the determination of the terms and conditions of their employment. Public employees shall have the right to be represented in the determination of grievances on all terms and conditions of their employment. Public employees shall have the right to refrain from exercising the right to be represented.

(C)

Public employees shall have the right to engage in concerted activities not prohibited by law, for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. Public employees shall also have the right to refrain from engaging in those activities.

(D)

Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to prevent any public employee from presenting, at any time, his own grievances, in person or by legal counsel, to his public employer, and having those grievances adjusted without the intervention of the bargaining agent, if the adjustment is not inconsistent with the terms of the collective bargaining agreement then in effect and if the bargaining agent has been given reasonable opportunity to be present at any meeting called for the resolution of those grievances.

(E)

Any full-time employee or officer of any public employer or employee organization may represent his employer or any member of a bargaining unit in any proceeding authorized in this part, excluding the representation of any person or public employer in a court of law by a person who is not a licensed attorney.

(Code 1980, § 20-6; Am. Ord. No. 74-77, passed 12/12/77; Am. Ord. No. 70-79, passed 10/8/79; Am. Ord. No. 3-89, passed 1/24/89)