Sec.5-273-77. Collective bargaining units in the executive branch of the state government

(a) Non-professional units.

(1) State Police - uniformed and investigatory.

(2) Service, maintenance, building trades and crafts. This constitutes a traditional blue collar unit and includes all employees not engaged in clerical administrative or office-related tasks excepting employees engaged in security, law enforcement and health care.

(3) Administrative clerical employees. This constitutes a traditional unit composed largely of clerical and other office-related employees in all departments of the executive branch of the state government (including those employed in corrections, protection and health care functions). It also includes employees performing nonprofessional inspection functions concerned primarily with contents of papers and documents.

(4) Corrections officers. This unit includes employees in correctional institutions concerned with custody, education, and counseling of inmates confined to institutions under the jurisdiction of the Corrections Department.

(5) Protective services. This unit includes employees engaged in the protection of property (e.g. guards, firefighters) and in law enforcement functions, excluding state police.

(6) Health care unit. This unit includes all non-professional employees engaged in health care functions (except clerical and blue collar employees).

(b) Professional units.

(1) Health Care unit. This includes doctors nurses, and other professionals engaged in health care functions.

(2) Social and human services. This unit includes all professional employees who are responsible for administering social welfare and social insurance programs and distributing benefits provided thereunder, as well as for providing counseling services to a range of clients.

(3) Education. This unit includes all professional employees engaged in functions related to education except those included in units defined in the Act itself.

(4) Engineering, science, and related. This unit includes professional engineers, architects, and other scientific personnel except those specifically included in other units.

(5) Administrative and residual. This unit includes white collar professional employees and complements unit number (a) (3) (administrative clerical employees).

(c) Deviations from model units. The units defined by these regulations are not intended to exclude:

(1) other units upon which all interested parties agree; or

(2) other units determined by the Board in response to individual petitions which deviate from the models for good cause shown.

(Effective May 7, 1980)