Oklahoma § 70-509.6 - Meetings with representatives – Good-faith negotiations
Full text of Oklahoma Oklahoma Statutes § 70-509.6 — Meetings with representatives – Good-faith negotiations, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 70-509.6. Meetings with representatives – Good-faith negotiations
Once an organization has been recognized, the board of education
or its duly designated representative must meet with the duly
designated representative of the organization and within sixty (60)
days shall complete an agreement outlining negotiation procedures.
The board of education and the representatives of the organization
must negotiate in good faith on wages, hours, fringe benefits and
other terms and conditions of employment. One-time incentive pay
and one-time retention incentive pay for returning a second year
shall not be subject to a negotiated agreement. To negotiate in
good faith shall mean both parties must be willing to consider
proposals in an effort to find a mutually satisfactory basis for
agreement and must be willing to discuss their respective contract
proposals. If either party objects to the other's contract
proposals, the objecting party must support its objections with
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rationale. Any allegation by either party that there has been a
failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall be
resolved through the dispute resolution procedure for resolving a
unit determination dispute as set forth in subsection A of Section
509.2 of this title.
Added by Laws 1971, c. 325, § 6. Amended by Laws 1986, c. 130, § 3,
emerg. eff. April 14, 1986; Laws 1986, c. 293, § 1; Laws 1994, c.
319, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Laws 2015, c. 56, § 2, eff. Nov. 1,
2015.
Source: official Oklahoma text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 70-509.6 ("Meetings with representatives – Good-faith negotiations") is part of the Oklahoma Statutes, the codified statutory law of Oklahoma. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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