Genesee County 9-1-1 Consortium Commission

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jun 12, 2018

07-WH-215502 (N.L.R.B. Jun. 12, 2018)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
GENESEE COUNTY 9-1-1
CONSORTIUM COMMISSION
Employer
and Case 07-WH-215502
POLICE OFFICERS LABOR COUNCIL
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On February 26, 2018, 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 April 2, 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 indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer, and contains a
copy of the parties’ current collective-bargaining agreement effective by its terms from
September 30, 2016 through September 30, 2018.
2
a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of the employees
of Genesee County 9-1-1 Consortium Commission in the following unit:2
All regular full-time Telecommunicators employed by Genesee County 911
Consortium Commission at its Central Dispatch Facility at G-4481
Corunna Road, Flint, Michigan, excluding guards, supervisors, office
clerical and all other employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., June 12, 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).