This Communication May Be Monitored

One of the duties of the new Public Safety über-Manager: "reports all contacts and communications with members of collective bargaining units to City Manager."

At the present time, all city employees belong to collective bargaining units except the über-managers and pay-per-call firefighters. So if this person has a conversation with any full-time firefighter or police officer, he must report it to the city manager. The language doesn't limit this to communications about city business, either, so it sounds like private e-mails or social contact with city employees (say, chatting with a staffer from a different city department at a church service or neighborhood gathering) must be reported to Mr. Copeland.

Is this a standard clause for managerial positions?

Since communications and contact with NON-union city employees (such as pay-per-call firefighters) is A-OK, no reporting necessary, it sure sounds like the idea is just to limit and monitor contact between this new manager and union members. Maybe Copeland is afraid the new manager would want to join a bargaining unit him/herself?