Village of Bedford Park

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

Feb 24, 2020

13-WH-253039 (N.L.R.B. Feb. 24, 2020)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
VILLAGE OF BEDFORD PARK
Employer
and Case 13-WH-253039
ILLINOIS FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
LABOR COUNCIL
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(b) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On December 9, 2019, the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council (the
Petitioner) filed with the Regional Director for Region 13 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 17, 2019, the Regional Director for Region 13 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 the Illinois Fraternal Order of

1
The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer, and it contains a
copy of the Illinois Labor Relations Board’s Certification of Representative issued on
April 22, 1997, naming the Petitioner as the exclusive representative of the unit
employees.
2
Police Labor Council is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the
FLSA, of all the employees of Village of Bedford Park in the following unit:2
Included: All full-time telecommunicators for the Village of Bedford Park Police
Department.
Excluded: All other employees employed by the Village of Bedford Park as well
as all supervisory, managerial and confidential employees as defined by the Act.
Dated, Washington, D.C., February 24, 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).