San Francisco Administrative Code § 16.210 Establishment of Bargaining Units

(a) The Employee Relations Director shall make determinations as to appropriate bargaining units. In the event an employee or employee organization disagrees with the Employee Relations Director's determination, the aggrieved party may, within 60 days from the date of the Employee Relations Director's determination, submit a protest to the Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service Commission will select an administrative law judge who will schedule the matter for a hearing and final determination. In arriving at said determination, the administrative law judge shall consider the factors described in subsection (b) immediately below.

(b) The criteria for determining the appropriateness of bargaining units shall include: the community of interest among employees; the history of employee representation in the unit; the extent to which employees have common knowledge, skill and abilities, working conditions, job duties or similar educational requirements; the need to avoid undue fragmentation of bargaining units; the wishes of the affected employees; and any impact on the City and County's ability to effectively and efficiently deliver services.

(c) All employees throughout the City and County of San Francisco within any of the following categories shall constitute an appropriate representation unit:

Bargaining Unit # 7

Bargaining Unit # 8

(Professional and Technical, SFAPP)

Bargaining Unit # 28

(Environmental and Natural Sciences)

Bargaining Unit # 34 (Police Department Managers)

Bargaining Unit # 38 (Sheriff's Dept. Supervisors)

Bargaining Unit # 45

Bargaining Unit # 55

Bargaining Unit # 56

Bargaining Unit # 57

(Former OCII Professional & Technical – O2)

(d) Bargaining Units in effect as of the effective date of this Ordinance shall remain unchanged and treated as separate bargaining units unless modified by action of the Employee Relations Director as provided herein. In determining any appropriate representation unit, separate representation shall be granted to any building trade or other craft or group which has historically established separate bargaining units in private industry or the journeymen of which normally attain status through the completion of a substantial period of apprenticeship. In establishing any such craft or group unit, there shall be included all apprentices, journeymen, foremen and general foremen that are customarily included in such craft or group units in negotiated contracts in private industry and shall also include within the separate craft or group unit those positions that have historically been represented by the craft or group organization in the handling of grievances and determination of wages and working conditions with the City and County of San Francisco.

(Amended by Ord. 295-83, App. 5/27/83; Ord. 109-94, App. 3/11/94; Ord. 296-10, File No. 101157, App. 12/3/2010; Ord. 17-12 , File No. 111067, App. 2/7/2012, Eff. 3/8/2012; Ord. 155-12 , File No. 120635, App. 6/29/2012, Eff. 7/29/2012; Ord. 185-15 , File No. 150872, App. 10/29/2015, Eff. 11/28/2015; Ord. 219-16, File No. 160789, App. 11/10/2016, Eff. 12/10/2016; Ord. 232-17, File No. 170866, App. 12/8/2017, Eff. 12/8/2017)