§1025-B.__Proceeding without representation by bargaining agent

1.__Same rights as bargaining agent.__If an employee elects to pursue a grievance without the intervention of the bargaining agent as provided in section 1025, subsection 2, paragraph E:

A.__The employee has all the rights to present and prosecute the grievance fully and completely that the bargaining agent would have under the law and any existing bargaining agreement; and

B.__The employer shall accept and process the grievance and comply with any agreed-upon or ordered resolution of the grievance as if the grievance had been presented and processed by the bargaining agent from its inception.

2.__Role of bargaining agent.__If an employee elects to pursue a grievance independently of the bargaining agent as provided in section 1025, subsection 2, paragraph E:

A.__The bargaining agent may not take an official position or in any way communicate an unofficial position to the employer on the pending grievance unless requested to do so by the employee;

B.__The bargaining agent may not in any way hinder or obstruct the grievance process; and

C.__The bargaining agent shall assist and cooperate fully with the employee in all matters relating to the grievance as reasonably requested by the employee, except that the bargaining agent is not required to act in a representative capacity on behalf of the employee in any proceeding relating to the pending grievance.

§1025-C.__Proceedings in which employee initially requests

representation by bargaining agent

1.__Failure or refusal to represent employee in grievance.__If the bargaining agent, citing a grievance's lack of merit,