West Central Joint Emergency Telephone System Board (ETSB)

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Oct 30, 2017

25-WH-201770 (N.L.R.B. Oct. 30, 2017)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
WEST CENTRAL JOINT EMERGENCY
TELEPHONE SYSTEM BOARD (ETSB)
Employer
and Case 25-WH-201770
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 July 3, 2017, Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council (the Petitioner)
filed with the Regional Director for Region 25 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 July 14, 2017, the Regional Director for Region 25 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,
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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 Illinois Fraternal Order of Police
Labor Council is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of

1 The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer, and includes a
copy of the Illinois Labor Relations Board’s Certification of Representative issued
January 18, 2017, naming the Petitioner as the exclusive representative of the unit
employees.
the employees of West Central Joint Emergency Telephone System Board (ETSB) in
the following unit:
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INCLUDED: All full-time employees of West Central Joint Dispatch in the
following titles: Telecommunicator I; CTO/Telecommunicator II.
EXCLUDED: All other employees of West Central Joint Dispatch.
Dated, Washington, D.C., October 30, 2017
By direction of the Board:
Roxanne Rothschild
Deputy Executive Secretary

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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).