ARTICLE I RECOGNITION

Warwick School District

1-1  The School Committee hereby recognizes the Warwick Teachers' Union, Local 915, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, as the exclusive bargaining representative for all those employees in the bargaining unit, in accordance with Chapter 9.3 of the School Teacher's Arbitration Act, employed by the Warwick Public Schools, for the purpose of negotiating with respect to salaries and other conditions of employment for the duration of this agreement.

1-2  It is understood that personnel holding the title of supervisor, coordinator, or director, day-to-day substitutes and substitutes employed for less than six months are excluded from the aforementioned bargaining unit and that a teacher engaged in teaching in the Adult Education or the Summer School Programs in which field he/she has a provisional or standard teaching certificate issued by the State Department of Education as well as school psychologists,  speech language pathologists, and physical and occupational therapists, shall be represented by the Warwick Teachers' Union in the same manner and to the same extent as is any other teacher as defined herein.