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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="15-109" title_number="15" title_name="Baltimore City" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>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:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>maintenance, housekeeping, and technical personnel;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>administrative and clerical personnel; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>supervisory personnel.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The power under paragraph (1) of this section includes the power of the Baltimore Authority to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>deal with and, through an exclusive bargaining representative, address grievances and settle disputes;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>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</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>draft and execute labor agreements that last not more than 3 consecutive fiscal years.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A bargaining unit under paragraph (1) of this subsection may not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>confidential employees;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>contractual employees employed for less than 5 consecutive years;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>probationary employees;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>attorneys in the general counsel’s office;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>supervisors, as defined in 29 U.S.C. § 152(11); or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>employees whose main responsibility is to manage or direct independently the assets and affairs of the Baltimore Authority.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Baltimore Authority may engage in binding third-party arbitration of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>disputes over a term or condition of employment; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>grievances that relate to the interpretation or application of a written collective bargaining agreement, employment regulation, or work rule.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Baltimore Authority may exercise any power that is necessary and appropriate to establish and implement a system of collective bargaining with its employees.</text>
  </level>
</section>
