Kalamazoo County Consolidated Dispatch Authority

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

Feb 16, 2021

07-WH-270414 (N.L.R.B. Feb. 16, 2021)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
KALAMAZOO COUNTY CONSOLIDATED
DISPATCH AUTHORITY
Employer
and Case 07-WH-270414
LOCAL 2290, INTERNATIONAL UNION,
UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE AND
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS
OF AMERICA
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(b) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On December 17, 2020, Local 2290, International Union, United Automobile,
Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (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 December 29, 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 a
copy of the parties’ current collective-bargaining agreement, effective by its terms from
January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2022, as well as a copy of the Certification of
2
No party having shown cause why the requested certification should not be
issued, the National Labor Relations Board certifies that the International Union, United
Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America is a bona fide
representative for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of the employees in the
following unit:2
Bargaining Unit: All full-time and part-time ECO I and ECO II.
Excluded Employees: All Supervision and other employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., February 16, 2021.
By direction of the Board:
Roxanne Rothschild
Executive Secretary
Exclusive Representative issued on May 12, 2020, by the Michigan Department of
Labor and Economic Opportunity, Employment Relations Commission.
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).