Hurley Medical Center

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

Oct 23, 2020

07-WH-264536 (N.L.R.B. Oct. 23, 2020)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
HURLEY MEDICAL CENTER
Employer
and Case 07-WH-264536
POLICE OFFICERS LABOR COUNCIL (POLC)
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(b) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On August 12, 2020, Police Officers Labor Council (POLC) (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 August 20, 2020, 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.
1
The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer, and it
contains copies of the parties’ most recent collective-bargaining agreement,
effective by its terms from November 7, 2016 through June 30, 2021, and the
Certification of Exclusive Representative certified by the Michigan Employment
Relations Commission was issued by the Michigan Department of Licensing and
Regulatory Affairs on May 17, 2016.
2
No party having shown cause why the requested certification should not
be issued, the National Labor Relations Board certifies that Police Officers Labor
Council (POLC) is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the
FLSA, of the employees of the Hurley Medical Center in the following unit:2
All Public Safety Officers, Public Safety Charge Officers and Assess
Control Officers within the Hurley Medical Center Department of Public
Safety.
Excluding: Supervisors and all other employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., October 23, 2020.
By direction of the Board:
Roxanne Rothschild
Executive Secretary
2
A certificate of representative as bona fide for purposes of the FLSA does not
necessarily establish the certified organization’s right to be recognized as the
exclusive bargaining representative under the provisions of the National Labor
Relations Act. See County of Alameda, 322 NLRB 614 (1996).