ARTICLE 1.00 - RECOGNITION AND DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01: RECOGNITION
SECTION 1.02: DEFINITIONS
A. Snohomish School District No. 201 (hereinafter the "District") hereby recognizes the Snohomish Education Association (hereinafter the "Association") as the exclusive bargaining representative for all non-supervisory certificated educational employees, except the following:
1. Superintendent;
2. Executive Directors;
3. Principals;
4. Assistant Principals;
5. Assistant Administrators;
6. All other District employees whose duties necessarily imply a confidential relationship to the Employer Board and/or the Superintendent pursuant to EERA and supervisors;
7. All casual employees, who shall be defined as substitute certificated employees employed by the District sporadically on call as needed and who have not worked at least thirty (30) days during either the current or the immediately preceding school year; and
8. All other District employees not specifically included by the provisions of this Section.
B. In addition to the certificated educational employees recognized to be in the bargaining unit by the foregoing, the following categories of employees shall also be included in the bargaining unit:
1. Part-time substitutes, who shall be defined as substitute certificated employees employed by the District for more than thirty (30) days of work within either the current or immediately preceding school year and who continue to be available for employment as substitute teachers, and
2. Long-term substitutes, who shall be defined as substitute certificated employees employed by the District to replace a member of the bargaining unit who is absent from his or her regular assignment in excess of twenty (20) consecutive days.
Once in the bargaining unit, part-time and long-term substitutes shall continue to be in the unit so long as available to be employed by the District as a substitute.
C. In the event the parties cannot agree whether a newly created position belongs in the bargaining unit, either party, at its option, may request the Public Employment Relations Commission to resolve the issue.
Unless the context in which they are used clearly requires otherwise when used in this Agreement:
The term "Agreement" shall mean this entire contract.
The term "days" shall mean calendar days unless otherwise specifically defined in this Agreement.
Unless the context in which they are used clearly requires otherwise, words used in this contract denoting gender shall include both the masculine and feminine; and words denoting number include both the singular and plural.