Organizing & Field Services Program
Purpose: The Organizing & Field Services Program is designed to provide PFFMaine affiliates with quality labor/employee-management representation, education for local union officers, and provides financial assistance to PFFMaine Affiliates to help defray the cost of fulfilling their representational responsibilities through grants or an interest-free loan.
Background: Since June 1989, PFFMaine has been providing labor-management representation and/or services to PFFMaine affiliates that participate in and pay for services under the PFFMaine’s Full-Service Program. These services included but were not limited to organizing new IAFF/PFFMaine affiliates, assisting new locals in obtaining the exclusive recognition, contract negotiations, grievance/arbitration preparation/presentation, preparing and processing ULP charges, representing employees exposed to disciplinary actions, providing training for local union leaders and legal assistance as necessary. These services have been historically provided by the PFFMaine’s District Vice-Presidents and our Secretary. Since 1989, the PFFMaine amended the Full-Service Program in 1994, 1996 and 2001 and 2012 created the Organizing & Field Services Policy to replace the Full-Service Program. The Organizing & Field Services Program and its related services and fees have not been reviewed and/or revised since April 2012.
Scope: The Organizing & Field Services Program is available to “all” IAFF affiliates that belong to PFFMaine. The current PFFMaine/IAFF Affiliates participating in the existing Organizing & Field Services Program agree to amend and maintain the Organizing & Field Services Program based on the terms/conditions of our establish policy. The current PFFMaine/IAFF Affiliate[s] that are not participating in the Organizing & Field Services Program were grandfathered in July 2012 from the Organizing & Field Service Program, unless they express an interest in participating in the program. All new PFFMaine affiliates will be required to participate in the Organizing/Field Services Program as outlined in this policy.
Please take the time to review the attached policy. If you have any questions, need additional information and/or see the need to discuss any of the policy further and/or have a need to request assistance/service under this policy, please contact your respective District Vice-President.
PFFMaine Affiliate Contracts
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2019 IAFF Sample CBA Language
01/22/2024 - 2.20MB
The intention of this manual is to provide actual examples of contract language extracted from IAFF local union agreements to assist IAFF affiliates in preparing their contract proposals and drafting collective bargaining agreements.
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Chapter 10 - General Rules
01/04/2024 - 0.09MB
This chapter defines certain terms used throughout the rules of the Maine Labor Relations
Board and contains other rules of general application.
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Chapter 11 - Bargaining Unit Composition and Representation Matters
01/03/2024 - 0.20MB
This chapter contains rules concerning petitions to create, modify, or merge
bargaining units, petitions to hold bargaining agent elections, hearings on unit composition
issues, procedures for bargaining agent certification and decertification, and appeals on
representation matters.
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Chapter 12 - Prohibited Practice Complaints; Interpretive Rulings
01/02/2024 - 0.13MB
This chapter contains rules on filing prohibited practice complaints, responding to a complaint, the prehearing conference, the adjudicatory hearing and the issuance of decisions and orders by the Board. This chapter also contains rules on requests for interpretive rulings from the Board.
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Chapter 13 - Resolution of Contract Negotiation Disputes
01/01/2024 - 0.11MB
This chapter contains rules on requesting mediation, fact-finding, and arbitration and rules governing certain aspects of those proceedings.
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Title 26, Chapter 9-A: Municipal Public Employees Labor Relations Law
12/31/2023 - 0.21MB
It is declared to be the public policy of this State and it is the purpose of this chapter to promote the improvement of the relationship between public employers and their employees by providing a uniform basis for recognizing the right of public employees to join labor organizations of their own choosing and to be represented by such organizations in collective bargaining for terms and conditions of employment.
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MLRB Form 1 - Agreement on Appropriate Unit
01/11/2024 - 0.13MB
This form is used when the employer and union have agreed upon the composition of a bargaining unit or have agreed upon a change in the composition of the unit.
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MLRB Form 2A - Petition for Election or Unit Determination
01/10/2024 - 0.31MB
This form is for elections and unit determination issues. It is used to petition for a bargaining agent election or a decertification election as well as to petition for a unit determination when the employer and union have not agreed upon the make up of a new bargaining unit.
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MLRB Form 2B - Petition for Unit Clarification or Unit Merger
01/09/2024 - 0.24MB
This form is for unit clarification and unit merger issues. It can only be filed by the employer or the incumbent bargaining agent.
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MLRB Form 2C - Petition for Bargaining Agent Certification By Majority Sign-up
01/08/2024 - 0.29MB
This form is for bargaining agent certification when there is demonstration of majority support. It can only be filed when no other bargaining agent is currently certified or recognized.
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MLRB Form 2D - Petition for Bargaining Agent Merger Election.
01/07/2024 - 0.23MB
This form is used to request an election to merge the bargaining agents for existing bargaining units.
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MLRB Form 3 - Voluntary Recognition
01/06/2024 - 0.12MB
This form is used when the employer voluntarily recognizes a bargaining agent as the representative of employees in a bargaining unit.
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MLRB Form 4 - Request for Fact-Finding Panel
01/05/2024 - 0.18MB
This form is used when one or both parties wish to submit their collective bargaining dispute to a fact-finding panel.
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MLRB Form 5 - Mediation Request
01/04/2024 - 0.15MB
This form is used when a party wishes to request the assistance of a mediator assigned from the Panel of Mediators.
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MLRB Form 6 - Mutual Request to Waive Fact Finding:
01/03/2024 - 0.17MB
This form is used when the parties wish to waive fact finding.
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MLRB Form 7 - Prohibited Practice Complaint
01/02/2024 - 0.31MB
This form is used to submit a Prohibited Practice Complaint to the Board.
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MLRB Form 8 - Request For Exception To Electronic Filing Requirement
01/01/2024 - 0.20MB
This form is used when a party is unable to file documents electronically.
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IAFF Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Manual
01/22/2024 - 0.95MB
The FLSA contains a number of provisions that are unique to fire protection employees who work for public agency employers, such as special rules regarding accumulation of compensatory time, certain tour-of-duty practices, the exemption for small departments, and, most significantly, the hourly standards used to determine overtime compensation.
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