ITASCA COUNTY

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

May 21, 2020

18-WH-256489 (N.L.R.B. May. 21, 2020)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
ITASCA COUNTY
Employer
and Case 18-WH-256489
AFSCME COUNCIL 65 – Local 639
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(b) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On February 18, 2020, AFSCME Council 65 – Local 639 (the Petitioner) 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 April 6, 2020, the Regional Director for Region 18 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 AFSCME Council 65 – Local
1
The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer, and it contains a
copy of the parties’ current collective-bargaining agreement, effective by its terms from
January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2021, as well as a Memorandum of
Understanding between the parties dated January 9, 2020.
.
2
639 is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of the
employees of Itasca County in the following unit:2
All employees in the Sheriff’s Department that are Corrections Deputy,
Emergency Communications Specialists, Corrections Sergeant employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., May 21, 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).