City of Center Line, Public Safety and Dispatch

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

Aug 13, 2012

07-WH-082770 (N.L.R.B. Aug. 13, 2012)

Center Line, MI
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
CITY OF CENTER LINE
Employer
and Case 07-WH-082770
POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
OF MICHIGAN
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On June 8, 2012, Police Officers Association of Michigan filed with the Acting
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. Sec. 207(b).
On June 14, 2012, the Acting Regional Director 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 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 a certification should not be issued, the
National Labor Relations Board hereby certifies that Police Officers Association of

1 The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer and has
recognized the Police Officers Association of Michigan as the collective-
bargaining representative of the employees in the unit. The parties’ current
collective-bargaining agreement is effective from July 1, 2009 through June 30,
2014.
Michigan is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of the
employees of the City of Center Line in the following unit:2
All regular full-time Public Safety Officers employed by the City of Center
Line Public Safety Department holding classifications of Public Safety
Officer or Public Safety Corporal; and all regular full-time and part-time
Clerk-Typist/Dispatchers performing dispatch and emergency telephone
operator duties in the City of Center Line Public Safety Department;
excluding all executives, Sergeants, Lieutenants, confidential employees,
and all other employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., August 13, 2012.
By direction of the Board:
Lester A. Heltzer
__________________________
Executive Secretary

2 A certificate of 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).