Clare County Board of Commissioners

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

Jun 1, 2011

07-WH-000223 (N.L.R.B. Jun. 1, 2011)

Detroit, MI
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
CLARE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Employer
and Case 7-WH-223
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 February 18, 2011, the 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 March 2, 2011, the Regional Director served on the parties a Notice to Show
Cause why the Board should not grant the request. The Employer filed a response in
which it concurred with the Petitioner’s request. 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 certifies that the Police Officers Association of Michigan

1 The record indicates that the most recent collective-bargaining agreement
between the parties was effective September 1, 2008 through September 30,
2010.
is a bona fide representative of the employees in the following unit for purposes of
Section 7(b) of the FLSA:2
All regular full-time dispatchers of the Clare County 911 Central Dispatch
Department, all transition full-time dispatchers of the Clare County 911
Central Dispatch Department, and all regular part-time dispatchers of the
Clare County 911 Central Dispatch Department, excluding the 911 director
and all other employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., June 1, 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).