
TENTATIVE AGREEMENT:
ARTICLE 26
NON-DISCRIMINATION
1.
The Employer and the Union will not discriminate against any employee or
applicant for employment in any manner on the basis of race, color, religion,
national origin, sex, age, sexual preference, marital status, military service,
disability that can be reasonably accommodated without undue hardship, union
status or lack thereof, or any other characteristic protected by law.
2.
Wherever in this Agreement a gender pronoun or the singular or plural
form of a gender is used, it is understood that such references are meant to
have equal application to all persons covered by this Agreement, male or female.
3.
Any employee and/or the Union wishing to pursue the grievance procedure
and/or arbitration beyond step one of the grievance procedure for an alleged
breach of Section 1 above, both the Union and the employee must sign a clear and
unmistakable waiver of the right to pursue any and all statutory relief for the
actions constituting such alleged breach. Any
employee, and/or the Union who pursues or has pursued statutory relief for
actions constituting such alleged breach shall be ineligible to utilize the
grievance and/or arbitration procedures of this Agreement.
The employee and/or the Union thus may select either statutory or
contractual relief, but not both. [Agreed
6/19/08]
