Contra Costa County

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 6, 2018

32-WH-226453 (N.L.R.B. Nov. 6, 2018)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
Employer
and Case 32-WH-226453
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
DEPUTY SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On August 28, 2018, Contra Costa County Deputy Sheriffs Association (the
Petitioner) filed with the Regional Director for Region 32 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 August 30, 2018, the Regional Director for Region 32 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 the requested certification should not be
issued, the National Labor Relations Board certifies that Contra Costa County Deputy

1
The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer, and contains a
copy of the parties’ current collective-bargaining agreement effective by its terms from
July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2019.
2
Sheriffs Association is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the
FLSA, of the employees of Contra Costa County in the following unit:2
Deputy Sheriff-40 hour, Deputy Sheriff-56 hour, Deputy Sheriff Criminalist
I, Deputy Sheriff-Criminalist II, Deputy Sheriff-Criminalist III, Deputy
Sheriff-Forensic Supervisor, Sergeant, Background Investigator I,
Background Investigator II, Biometric Systems Specialist, Crime Scene
Investigator I, Crime Scene Investigator II, Criminalist I, Criminalist II,
Criminalist III, Criminalistics Lab Aide, Criminalistics Lab Aide-Proj, Deputy
Sheriff-Recruit-Fixed Term, Fingerprint Examiner I, Fingerprint Examiner
II, Fingerprint Technician I, Fingerprint Technician II, Forensic Supervisor,
Sheriff Community Svc Officer, Sheriff’s Aide, Sheriff’s Dispatcher I,
Sheriff’s Dispatcher II, Sheriff’s Photographer, Sheriff’s Ranger, Sheriff’s
Specialist, Supervising Fingerprint Examiner, Supervising Fingerprint
Tech, Supervising Sheriff’s Aide, and Supervising Sheriff’s Dispatcher.
Dated, Washington, D.C., November 6, 2018
By direction of the Board:
Roxanne Rothschild
Acting 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).