Isabella County Board of Commissioners

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 29, 2012

07-WH-070240 (N.L.R.B. Mar. 29, 2012)

Mt. Pleasant, MI
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
ISABELLA COUNTY BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS
Employer
and Case 07-WH-070240
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 December 6, 2011, the Police Officers Association of Michigan 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. Sec. 207(b).
On December 8, 2011, the Regional Director served on the parties a Notice to
Show Cause why the Board should not grant the request.1 The Employer filed a
response in which it concurred with the Petitioner’s request. 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 the Employer posted the original Notice to Show Cause at
its facility from December 19, 2011 through January 4, 2012. Due to the Employer’s
delay in posting the original Notice, a second Notice was issued on January 13, 2012,
and was posted by the Employer from January 18, 2012 through February 10, 2012.
There were no responses to this second Notice.
2 The record indicates that the most recent collective-bargaining agreement
between the parties was effective October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2011.
2
No party having shown cause why the requested certification should not be
issued, the National Labor Relations Board hereby certifies that the Police Officers
Association of Michigan is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of
the FLSA, of the employees employed in the Isabella County Central Dispatch Center in
the following unit:3
All full-time and regularly scheduled part-time dispatchers;
but excluding supervisors and all other Isabella County
employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2012
By direction of the Board:
Lester A. Heltzer
__________________________
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).