City of Fairview Heights

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Oct 26, 2016

14-WH-183525 (N.L.R.B. Oct. 26, 2016)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
CITY OF FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS
Employer
and Case 14-WH-183525
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 September 2, 2016, Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council (the
Petitioner) filed with the Regional Director for Region 14 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 September 9, 2016, the Regional Director for Region 14 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 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

1 The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer, and the case file
includes a copy of the Certification of Representative issued March 19, 2015, by the
Illinois Labor Relations Board.
Labor Council is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of
the employees of the City of Fairview Heights in the following unit:
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Included: All full-time Telecommunicators employed by the City of
Fairview Heights in its Police Department.
Excluded: All other employees of the City of Fairview Heights.
Dated, Washington, D.C., October 26, 2016.
By direction of the Board:
Gary Shinners
__________________________
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).