# Housing and Community Development (GHS)

## Title 15. Baltimore City

### Subtitle 1

#### Section 15-109

(a)

  (1) The Baltimore Authority may recognize and engage in collective bargaining with the exclusive bargaining representatives of all appropriate employee bargaining units, including units consisting of:

    (i) maintenance, housekeeping, and technical personnel;

    (ii) administrative and clerical personnel; and

    (iii) supervisory personnel.

  (2) The power under paragraph (1) of this section includes the power of the Baltimore Authority to:

    (i) deal with and, through an exclusive bargaining representative, address grievances and settle disputes;

    (ii) meet and bargain in good faith with an exclusive bargaining representative about wages, hours, working conditions, and other terms and conditions of employment to form a binding labor agreement; and

    (iii) draft and execute labor agreements that last not more than 3 consecutive fiscal years.

  (3) A bargaining unit under paragraph (1) of this subsection may not include:

    (i) confidential employees;

    (ii) contractual employees employed for less than 5 consecutive years;

    (iii) probationary employees;

    (iv) attorneys in the general counsel's office;

    (v) supervisors, as defined in 29 U.S.C. Sec. 152(11); or

    (vi) employees whose main responsibility is to manage or direct independently the assets and affairs of the Baltimore Authority.

(b) The Baltimore Authority may engage in binding third-party arbitration of:

  (1) disputes over a term or condition of employment; and

  (2) grievances that relate to the interpretation or application of a written collective bargaining agreement, employment regulation, or work rule.

(c) The Baltimore Authority may exercise any power that is necessary and appropriate to establish and implement a system of collective bargaining with its employees.

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Md. Code Ann., Hous. & Cmty. Dev. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)