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179A.40 HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, INC.
    Subdivision 1. Units. The following are the appropriate employee units of the Hennepin
Healthcare System, Inc. All units shall exclude supervisors, managerial employees, and
confidential employees. No additional units of Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc., shall be eligible
to be certified for the purpose of meeting and negotiating with an exclusive representative. The
units include all:
(1) registered nurses;
(2) physicians;
(3) professionals except for registered nurses and physicians;
(4) technical and paraprofessional employees;
(5) carpenters, electricians, painters, and plumbers;
(6) health general service employees;
(7) interpreters;
(8) emergency medical technicians/emergency medical dispatchers (EMT/EMD), and
paramedics;
(9) bioelectronics specialists, bioelectronics technicians, and electronics technicians;
(10) skilled maintenance employees; and
(11) clerical employees.
    Subd. 2. Nonconforming units. Preexisting Hennepin County Medical Center bargaining
units covered by existing labor agreements on June 3, 2005, that do not conform to one of the 11
units described in subdivision 1 shall continue to be appropriate. If an employee representative
seeks to represent employees who are residual to an existing nonconforming unit, then all of
the employees who are residual to that unit shall be eligible to vote in an election conducted
by the commissioner. An election shall be held when an employee organization or group of
employees files a petition for an election and the petition is supported by a showing of interest
from 30 percent or more of the employees who are residual to an existing nonconforming unit.
The employees who are residual to an existing nonconforming unit shall be included within the
existing nonconforming unit if a majority of the eligible employees who vote cast their ballots in
favor of representation during an election conducted by the commissioner. Nothing shall preclude
an exclusive representative and Hennepin HealthCare System, Inc., or prior to the formation of
the corporation Hennepin County, from agreeing to an election conducted by the commissioner
or other appropriate procedure by which less than all of the employees who are residual to an
existing nonconforming unit may be added to the unit.
History: 2005 c 125 art 2 s 5

NOTE:This section, as added by Laws 2005, chapter 125, article 2, section 5, is effective
the day after the Hennepin County Board files a certificate of local approval in compliance with
Minnesota Statutes, section 645.021, subdivision 3. Laws 2005, chapter 125, article 1, section
29, as amended by Laws 2005, First Special Session chapter 7, section 34; and Laws 2005,
chapter 125, article 2, section 10.

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