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TRtS AGREEMENT Made theday of March, 1078, by and
between the MIAMI DAbE GENERAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCAATION, INC., also
known as MIAMI1UADE GENERAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, and herein.,
after referred to as CEA, and the AMERICAN FEDERATION OE STATE,
COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, International, A. F. L. .C.I.O.
and its local 654, hereinafter referred to as AFSCME.
WITNESSETH
WHERE/kg, AFSCME and GEA, prior to 1974, had member-
ship only associations and agreements, and
WHEREAS, with the advent of the Florida Collective
Bargaining Act the employees must be represented by an exclu-
sive bargaining agent, and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto having competed for the
same members and for each to be the exclusive bargaining agent
for all general employees in the City of Miami, and
WHEREAS, the parties recognize that the only one bene-
fiting from the competition has been the City of Miami, and
WHEREAS, it is the desire and duty of a labor orga-
nization to work in the best interest of the employees to ob-
tain for them better wages, hours and terms and conditions of
employment, and
WHEREAS, in order to accomplish the aforesaid it would
be in the best interest of the employees that an affiliation be
entered into, and
WHEREAS, AFSCME has sought the affiliation of GEA and
has offered to disband AFSCME LOCAL #654 and has agreed that no
other AFSCME LOCAL, other than the successor hereof, shall be
organized in the City of Miami, and
WHEREAS, it is the purpose and intent of this Agree -
a tent to establish one collective bargaining representative for
the City of Miami,
NOW, THEREFORE,in consideration of mutual promises
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,. siderations, the following shall constitute the Agreement hot..
wen the parties with regard to all the rights, duties and obii-
rations between themselves, but not'to the exclusion of any mat-
ter which may be overlooked, that may be settled between the par-
ties by either direct negotiation tr amendment or modification
of this Agreement:
1. The name of the successor organization shall be MIAM
GENERAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, ACME LOCAL #1907, A► '.L.�C►I.O.
2. AESCME agrees to extend full constitutional rights to
all members of #1907 as of the time of the execution of this
Agreement.
3. The parties hereto agree that LOCAL #1907 shall be the
successor to all rights, duties, and obligations of their 1974-
1976 Collective Bargaining Agreements between their respective
organizations and the City of Miami, together with being the
successor to all rights which may be or have been granted to ei-
their the organizations or employees which aren't embodied in
the Collective Bargaining Agreements between the parties, since
the parties have been negotiating.
For Miami -Dade General Employees Association:
A.G. SHERMAN, President JANE MORTON, Treasurer
For A.F.S.C.M.E.:
TOM FITZPATRICK, Assistant to International President
DUKE SCHULTZ, International Representative
JERRY JONES, Acting President, A.F.S.C.M.E ,Local i654
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MIAMI-DATE GENERAL EMPLOYEES
ASSOCIATION, INC., and AFSCME,
LOCAL #654,
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CITY Off' MIAMI,
Joint Petitioners,
Respondent.
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STATE 8E FLORIDA
tUELIC EMPLOYEES RELATIONS COMMISSION
Case No. 8R-RC-77 OO1'i
aOIN '....PETITIC N.. TO_,_ACCE E TE_APPIL/ATU
COME NOW APSCME LOCAL #654, and GEA, by and through their
respective representatives, and request the Public Employees Rela-
tions Commission to do the following:
1. To recognize that it is the intention of the parties
to affiliate, and that as a result of the affiliation there shall
be one local union, which shall be the exclusive bargaining agent
for all general employees of the City of Miami, vis a vis: AFSCME
LOCAL #1907.
2. That AFSCME Local #654 has voted for the affiliation
pursuant to the constitution of that union.
3. That pursuant to the by-laws and rules adopted by the
Miami -Dade General Employees Association, the general membership was
given notice to vote for or against affiliation with AFSCME, and
the general membership voted approximately five to one in favor of
affiliation, with more than three hundred ballots returned, with a
potential of approximately eight hundred eligible voters. That each
and every member of the General Employees Association was sent a
notice and the content of the affiliation. That there was open dis-
cussion at the general meetings of the Miami -Dade General Employees
Association, and that a secret ballot was mailed to'each and every
member of the Miami -Dade General Employees Association, with the
result as hereinbefore stated.
4. That it is the joint desire of AFSCME and the MIAMI-
DADS 'GENERAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION that they affiliate, conditioned
upon the following;
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a) That the cards signed by the employees
used in the RC Petition net become
stale or deleted as a result of the
affiliation,
b) That all contractual obligations
between the City of Miami and both
organizations, conducted after the
expiration of the 19/4-1976 contracts,
remain in full force and,effect.
c) That no employee lose any of his
rights hereto obtained,either con-
tractually or pursuant to the Civil
Service Law of the City of Miami.
5. That upon information and belief, the only other party
who would be interested in this proceeding would be the City of Miami,
who would not be prejudiced by the concession approving the affilia-
tion under the term herein.
6. That attached hereto and made a part hereof, are affi-
davits of the officers of the pa .es hereto, attesting to the regula-
rity of the vote, and that the procedures used for the affiliation
are in accordance with the rules, regulations, considerations and by-
laws of their respective labor organizations.
Dated: % 7 N% tel fiver
A.G. SHERMAN, for Miami -Dade bUKE SCHULTZ, for Local 654
General Employees Association
IRVING WEINSOFF, as Attorney
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