53A-3-426 - Education employee associations -- Equal participation -- Prohibition on endorsement or preferential treatment -- Naming of school breaks.
53A-3-426. Education employee associations -- Equal participation -- Prohibitionon endorsement or preferential treatment -- Naming of school breaks.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Education employee association" includes teacher associations, teacher unions,teacher organizations, and classified education employees' associations.
(b) "School" means a school district, a school in a school district, a charter school, or theState Board of Education and its employees.
(2) A school shall allow education employee associations equal access to the followingactivities:
(a) distribution of information in or access to teachers' or employees' physical orelectronic mailboxes, including email accounts that are provided by the school; and
(b) membership solicitation activities at new teacher or employee orientation training orfunctions.
(3) If a school permits an education employee association to engage in any of theactivities described in Subsection (2), the school shall permit all other education employeeassociations to engage in the activity on the same terms and conditions afforded to the educationemployee association.
(4) It is unlawful for a school to:
(a) establish or maintain structures, procedures, or policies that favor one educationemployee association over another or otherwise give preferential treatment to an educationemployee association; or
(b) explicitly or implicitly endorse any education employee association.
(5) A school's calendars and publications may not include or refer to the name of anyeducation employee association in relation to any day or break in the school calendar.
Enacted by Chapter 88, 2007 General Session