2.52.050 Open period for filing challenging petition.

(A) Within thirty days of the date written notice was given to affected employees that a valid recognition for an appropriate unit has been filed, any other employee organization may file a competing request to be formally acknowledged as the exclusively recognized employee organization of the employees in the same or in an overlapping unit (one which corresponds with respect to some but not all the classifications or positions set forth in the recognition petition being challenged), by filing a petition evidencing proof of employee support in the unit claimed to be appropriate of at least fifty percent and otherwise in the same form and manner as set forth in Section 2.52.030 of this article.

(B) If such challenging petition seeks establishment of an overlapping unit, the employee relations officer shall call for a hearing on such overlapping petitions for the purpose of ascertaining the more appropriate unit, at which time the petitioning employee organizations shall be heard.

(C) Thereafter, the employee relations officer shall determine the appropriate unit or units in accordance with the standards in Section 2.52.060 of this article. The petitioning employee organizations shall have fifteen days from the date notice of such unit determination is communicated to them by the employee relations officer to amend their petitions to conform to such determination or to appeal such determination pursuant to Section 2.52.100 of this article.