DODGE COUNTY, MINNESOTA

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

May 7, 2013

18-WH-097426 (N.L.R.B. May. 7, 2013)

Mantorville, MN
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
DODGE COUNTY, MINNESOTA
Employer
and Case 18-WH-097426
MINNESOTA TEAMSTERS PUBLIC AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEES UNION,
LOCAL NO. 320
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On January 31, 2013, Minnesota Teamsters Public and Law Enforcement
Employees Union, Local No. 320 filed with the Regional Director for Region 18 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 February 4, 2013, the Regional Director for Region 18 served on the parties
an Order to Show Cause why the Board should not grant the request. No response was
filed.1 As the Region’s investigation revealed that the Petitioner is the recognized
collective-bargaining representative of the unit employees,2 the Acting Regional Director
recommended to the Board that the requested certification be issued.

1 The record indicates that, by letter dated January 24, 2013, the Employer’s
Employee Relations Director notified the Regional Director that the Employer is
in full agreement with the Petitioner’s request for certification.
2 The record indicates that the State of Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services
certified the Petitioner as the exclusive collective-bargaining representative of
the unit employees on April 23, 1997, and that the parties’ current collective-
bargaining agreement is effective from January 1, 2013 through December 31,
2014.
2
No party having shown cause why the requested certification should not be
issued, the National Labor Relations Board hereby certifies that Minnesota Teamsters
Public and Law Enforcement Employees Union, Local No. 320 is a bona fide
representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of the dispatchers of Dodge
County, Minnesota in the following unit: 3
All employees employed in the classification of Dispatcher in the Dodge
County Sheriff’s Department whose employment service corresponds to
the definition contained in Minnesota Statutes excluding non-licensed,
supervisory and confidential employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., May 7, 2013.
By direction of the Board:
Gary W. Shinners
__________________________
Executive Secretary

3 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).