Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 41.59 - Educational Employment Relations Act.
41.59.090 - Certification of exclusive bargaining representative—Scope of representation.

RCW 41.59.090
Certification of exclusive bargaining representative—Scope of representation.

The employee organization which has been determined to represent a majority of the employees in a bargaining unit shall be certified by the commission as the exclusive bargaining representative of, and shall be required to represent all the employees within the unit without regard to membership in that bargaining representative: PROVIDED, That any employee at any time may present his or her grievance to the employer and have such grievance adjusted without the intervention of the exclusive bargaining representative, as long as such representative has been given an opportunity to be present at that adjustment and to make its views known, and as long as the adjustment is not inconsistent with the terms of a collective bargaining agreement then in effect.

[ 2012 c 117 § 91; 1975 1st ex.s. c 288 § 10.]

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions

Chapter 41.59 - Educational Employment Relations Act.

41.59.010 - Purpose.

41.59.020 - Definitions.

41.59.031 - Application of chapter to charter schools.

41.59.060 - Employee rights enumerated—Employee authorization of membership dues and other payments—Revocation.

41.59.068 - Application of RCW 41.56.037—Bargaining representative access to new employees.

41.59.070 - Election to ascertain exclusive bargaining representative, when—Runoff election—Decertification election.

41.59.080 - Determination of bargaining unit—Standards.

41.59.090 - Certification of exclusive bargaining representative—Scope of representation.

41.59.105 - School district collective bargaining agreements.

41.59.106 - Rights of employees and bargaining representatives of school districts dissolved due to financial insolvency.

41.59.110 - Commission, rules and regulations of—Federal precedents as standard.

41.59.120 - Resolving impasses in collective bargaining—Mediation—Fact-finding with recommendations—Other.

41.59.130 - Binding arbitration procedures authorized.

41.59.140 - Unfair labor practices for employer, employee organization, enumerated.

41.59.150 - Commission to prevent unfair labor practices—Scope.

41.59.160 - Applicability of administrative procedure act provisions to commission action.

41.59.170 - Effective date of certain agreements—Increased benefits during agreement authorized, when.

41.59.180 - Employees in specialized job category—Exclusion.

41.59.900 - Short title.

41.59.910 - Construction of chapter—Effect on existing agreements—Collective bargaining agreement prevails where conflict.

41.59.920 - Construction of chapter—Employee's rights preserved.

41.59.930 - Construction of chapter—Employer's responsibilities and rights preserved.

41.59.935 - Construction of chapter—Certain agreements subject to RCW 28A.150.410, 28A.400.200, and 28A.150.276.

41.59.936 - Construction of chapter—Certain agreements subject to RCW 28A.405.470.

41.59.937 - Collective bargaining agreements not altered or impaired—Compliance with chapter—2017 3rd sp.s. c 13.

41.59.940 - Effective date—1975 1st ex.s. c 288.