Alpena County

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

Jun 13, 2011

07-WH-000222 (N.L.R.B. Jun. 13, 2011)

Alpena, MI
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
ALPENA COUNTY
Employer
and Case 7-WH-222
GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES LABOR COUNCIL
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On February 18, 2011, Governmental Employees Labor Council 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. Sec. 207(b).
On March 2, 2011, 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 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 a certification should not be issued, the
National Labor Relations Board certifies that Governmental Employees Labor Council is
a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of the employees
of Alpena County in the following unit:2

1 The recognition is embodied in the terms of the parties’ current collective
bargaining agreement, which is effective by its terms from January 1, 2010 through
December 31, 2011.
2 A certificate of bona fide for purposes of the FLSA does not necessarily
2
All full-time and regular part-time employees of Alpena County working in
E-911 Central Dispatch in the classification of telecommunicators; but
excluding the Director, Sheriff, Undersheriff, irregular employees,
supervisors, confidential employees, and all other county employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., June 13, 2011
By direction of the Board:
Lester A. Heltzer
__________________________
Executive Secretary

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).