West Suburban Consolidated Dispatch Center

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

Sep 10, 2019

13-WH-240309 (N.L.R.B. Sep. 10, 2019)

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
WEST SUBURBAN CONSOLIDATED
DISPATCH CENTER
Employer
and Case 13-WH-240309
THE 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 April 26, 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 May 6, 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
received. 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 that the
Employer and the Petitioner entered into a collective-bargaining agreement that was
effective by its terms from January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2018, or until a
successor agreement is executed between the parties, whichever later occurs. The
record also includes a copy of the Corrected Certification of Representative issued on
July 12, 2002, by the Illinois Labor Relations Board, naming the Petitioner as the
exclusive representative of the unit employees.
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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
Police Labor Council is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the
FLSA, of the employees of West Suburban Consolidated Dispatch Center in the
following unit:2
Included: All full-time Telecommunicators and Lead Telecommunicators
employed by the West Suburban Consolidated Dispatch Center.
Excluded: All part-time Telecommunicators, Director, Supervisor, Secretary, all
other employees of the Dispatch Center, supervisory, managerial, professional,
short-term and confidential employees within the meaning of the Illinois Public
Labor Relations Act; and all other persons excluded from coverage under the
Act.
Dated, Washington D.C., September 10, 2019.
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 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).