Contract Enforcer Who must enforce our contract? All local association members should be involved. But contract enforcement is a special responsibility of the association representatives, committee chairs, officers, Executive Committee members – in short, everyone who is a leader in the local association. What steps are necessary to enforce our contract? Local associations must: 1. explain the new contract to members. 2. establish appropriate grievance machinery to protect the rights of bargaining unit members. 30 – AR Handbook What is the best way to explain our contract to members? Local associations use different methods based on conditions. Some associations have used all these ideas: • Conduct briefing sessions for all members to explain the contract’s major provisions. Members of the negotiating team, for example, can serve as a panel which conducts afterschool meetings in each building in the district. • Write specific guidelines to new concepts and procedures in the contract. These guidelines should be given to ARs and other association leaders with specific suggestions for making certain the agreement is not violated. • Print the contract, and distribute it to all association members. (The AR is the logical person to distribute contracts personally to the members he/she represents.) • Obtain a copy of school board policies for distribution, as needed, to ARs. ARs promote contract enforcement Initiate checks on the contract’s enforcement. As a vital association leader, the AR is best able to detect small problems at early stages, where they can be solved with less difficulty. The AR must enforce the contract. • Make contract enforcement a regular agenda item at AR meetings.
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