3. Board of Trustees. "Board of Trustees" means the Board of Trustees of the University of Maine System, the Board of Trustees of the Maine Maritime Academy or the Board of Trustees of the Maine Technical Community College System.

Sec. 94. 26 MRSA §1022, sub-§11, as amended by PL 1989, c. 443, §63, is further amended to read:

11. University, academy or community college employee. "University, academy or technical community college employee" means any regular employee of the University of Maine System, the Maine Maritime Academy or the Maine Technical Community College System performing services within a campus or unit, except any person:

A. Appointed to office pursuant to law;

B. Appointed by the Board of Trustees as a vice- president, dean, director or member of the chancellor's, superintendent's or Maine Technical Community College System executive director's immediate staff;

C. Whose duties necessarily imply a confidential relationship with respect to matters subject to collective bargaining as between such person and the university, the academy or the Maine Technical Community College System; or

D. Employed in the initial 6 months of employment.

Sec. 95. 26 MRSA §1023, as amended by PL 1989, c. 443, §64, is further amended to read:

§1023. Right of university, academy or community college

employees to join labor organizations

No one may directly or indirectly interfere with, intimidate, restrain, coerce or discriminate against university, academy or technical community college employees or a group of university, academy or technical community college employees in the free exercise of their rights, hereby given, voluntarily to join, form and participate in the activities of organizations of their own choosing for the purposes of representation and collective bargaining, or in the free exercise of any other right under this chapter.

Sec. 96. 26 MRSA §1024-A, sub-§3, as amended by PL 1989, c. 443, §65, is further amended to read: