2005 Minnesota Statutes - 179A.40 — Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc.

     179A.40 Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc. 


    Subdivision 1.    Units.  The following are the 
 appropriate employee units of the Hennepin Healthcare System, 
 Inc.  All units shall exclude supervisors, managerial employees, 
 and confidential employees.  No additional units of Hennepin 
 Healthcare System, Inc., shall be eligible to be certified for 
 the purpose of meeting and negotiating with an exclusive 
 representative.  The units include all: 


    (1) registered nurses; 


    (2) physicians; 


    (3) professionals except for registered nurses and 
 physicians; 


    (4) technical and paraprofessional employees; 


    (5) carpenters, electricians, painters, and plumbers; 


    (6) health general service employees; 


    (7) interpreters; 


    (8) emergency medical technicians/emergency medical 
 dispatchers (EMT/EMD), and paramedics; 


    (9) bioelectronics specialists, bioelectronics technicians, 
 and electronics technicians; 


    (10) skilled maintenance employees; and 


    (11) clerical employees. 


    Subd. 2.    Nonconforming units.  Preexisting Hennepin 
 County Medical Center bargaining units covered by existing labor 
 agreements on June 3, 2005, that do not conform to one of the 11 
 units described in subdivision 1 shall continue to be 
 appropriate.  If an employee representative seeks to represent 
 employees who are residual to an existing nonconforming unit, 
 then all of the employees who are residual to that unit shall be 
 eligible to vote in an election conducted by the commissioner.  
 An election shall be held when an employee organization or group 
 of employees files a petition for an election and the petition 
 is supported by a showing of interest from 30 percent or more of 
 the employees who are residual to an existing nonconforming 
 unit.  The employees who are residual to an existing 
 nonconforming unit shall be included within the existing 
 nonconforming unit if a majority of the eligible employees who 
 vote cast their ballots in favor of representation during an 
 election conducted by the commissioner.  Nothing shall preclude 
 an exclusive representative and Hennepin HealthCare System, 
 Inc., or prior to the formation of the corporation Hennepin 
 County, from agreeing to an election conducted by the 
 commissioner or other appropriate procedure by which less than 
 all of the employees who are residual to an existing 
 nonconforming unit may be added to the unit. 


    HIST: 2005 c 125 art 2 s 5 


*   NOTE:  This section, as added by Laws 2005, chapter 125, 
*article 2, section 5, is effective the day after the Hennepin 
*County Board files a certificate of local approval in compliance 
*with Minnesota Statutes, section 645.021, subdivision 3.  Laws 
*2005, chapter 125, article 1, section 29, as amended by Laws 
*2005, First Special Session chapter 7, section 34; and Laws 
*2005, chapter 125, article 2, section 10.