Statute 72-5420: Criteria for determining appropriate unit of employees' organization.
In each case where the question is in issue, the secretary shall decide,
on the basis of the community of interest between
and among the professional employees of the board of education, the wishes
of the professional employees and/or the established practices
among the professional employees including, among other things, the extent
to which such professional employees have joined a professional employees'
organization, whether the
unit appropriate
for the purposes of professional negotiation shall consist of all persons
employed by the board of education who are engaged in teaching or
performing other duties of an educational nature, or some subdivision thereof,
except that a unit
including classroom teachers shall not be appropriate unless it includes
all such teachers employed by the board of education.
History: L. 1970, ch. 284, § 8; L. 1977, ch. 248, § 6; July 1.