Arenac County Sheriff and Arenac County

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 16, 2018

07-WH-212309 (N.L.R.B. Mar. 16, 2018)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
ARENAC COUNTY SHERIFF AND
ARENAC COUNTY
Employer
and Case 07-WH-212309
POLICE OFFICERS LABOR COUNCIL
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On December 27, 2017, Police Officers Labor Council (the Petitioner) filed with
the Regional Director for Region 7 of the National Labor Relations Board a request for
certification of representative as bona fide under Section 7(b) of the Fair Labor
Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § 207(b).
On January 12, 2018, the Regional Director for Region 7 served on the parties a
Notice to Show Cause why the Board should not grant the request. No response was
filed. As the Region’s investigation revealed that the Petitioner is the recognized
exclusive collective-bargaining representative of the unit employees,1 the Regional
Director recommended to the Board that the requested certification be issued.
No party having shown cause why the requested certification should not be
issued, the National Labor Relations Board certifies that Police Officers Labor Council is

1
The record reveals that the parties are bound to a collective-bargaining agreement
effective by its terms from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2019.
a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of the employees
of Arenac County Sheriff and Arenac County in the following unit:2
All full-time and regular part-time employees of the Arenac County Sheriff
Department classified as: Correctional Officers, Sergeant and Corporal but
excluding the Sheriff, Undersheriff, Jail Administrator, Lieutenant,
temporary employees and all other employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., March 16, 2018
By direction of the Board:
Gary Shinners
Executive Secretary

2
A certificate of representative as bona fide for purposes of the FLSA does not
necessarily establish the right of the organization so certified to be recognized as the
exclusive bargaining representative of employees within a particular bargaining unit
under the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act. See County of Alameda, 322
NLRB 614 (1996).