Calhoun County Consolidated Dispatch Authority

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

Feb 23, 2011

07-WH-000220 (N.L.R.B. Feb. 23, 2011)

Marshall, MI
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
CALHOUN COUNTY CONSOLIDATED
DISPATCH AUTHORITY
Employer
and Case 7-WH-220
POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
OF MICHIGAN
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On December 3, 2010, Police Officers Association of Michigan 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 December 10, 2010, the Regional Director served on the parties an Order to
Show Cause why the Board should not grant the request. No response was filed. As
the Region’s investigation revealed that the Union is the recognized collective-
bargaining representative of the unit employees,1 the Regional Director recommended
to the Board that a certification be issued.
No party having shown cause why a certification should not be issued, the
National Labor Relations Board hereby certifies that Police Officers Association of
Michigan is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of the

1 The record indicates that the Employer agreed to voluntarily recognize the
Police Officers Association of Michigan as the collective-bargaining
representative of the employees in the unit and that the parties are in the
process of negotiating their first contract.
employees of the Calhoun County Consolidated Dispatch Authority in the following
unit:2
All regular full-time Emergency Telecommunicators employed by the
Calhoun County Consolidated Dispatch Authority, but excluding
supervisors and all other employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C. February 23, 2011.
By direction of the Board:
Lester A. Heltzer
__________________________
Executive Secretary

2 A certificate of 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).