RAMSEY COUNTY

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jun 11, 2015

18-WH-145603 (N.L.R.B. Jun. 11, 2015)

Ramsey County, MN
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
RAMSEY COUNTY
Employer
and Case 18-WH-145603
LAW ENFORCEMENT LABOR SERVICES
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On February 3, 2015, Law Enforcement Labor Services, 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, 2015, the Regional Director 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 collective-
bargaining representative of the unit employees, the Regional Director recommended to
the Board that the requested certification be issued.1
No party having shown cause why the requested certification should not be
issued, the National Labor Relations Board hereby certifies that Law Enforcement Labor

1 The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer and that the State
of Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services certified the Petitioner as the exclusive
collective-bargaining representative of the unit employees on January 6, 2009. The
record also includes a copy of the parties’ most recent collective-bargaining agreement,
effective by its terms from January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2014, which the
parties have agreed to extend during ongoing negotiations.
2
Services is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of the
employees of Ramsey County in the following bargaining unit: 2
All Radio Dispatchers 1, Radio Dispatchers 2, and
Telecommunicators employed by Ramsey County, St Paul,
Minnesota, who are public employees within the meaning of
Minn Stat 179A 03, subd 14, excluding supervisory,
confidential and all other employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., June 11, 2015
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).