Lake County Board of Commissioners

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

May 19, 2016

07-WH-168420 (N.L.R.B. May. 19, 2016)

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Lake County, MI
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
LAKE COUNTY BOARD
OF COMMISSIONERS
Employer
and Case 07-WH-168420
LAKE COUNTY DISPATCH
OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On January 26, 2016, the Police Officers Association of Michigan (POAM), on
behalf of Lake County Dispatch Officers Association (the Petitioner), 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. § 207(b).
On February 4, 2016, 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 collective-
bargaining representative of the unit employees, the Regional Director recommended to
the Board that the requested certification be issued.1
No party having shown cause why the requested certification should not be
issued, the National Labor Relations Board hereby certifies that Lake County Dispatch

1 The record indicates that the Employer, Lake County Board of Commissioners, is
a public sector employer and that the Employer and the Petitioner are parties to a
collective-bargaining agreement valid by its terms from January 1, 2015 through
December 31, 2017, covering the wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of
employment of the unit employees.
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Officers Association is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the
FLSA, of the employees of Lake County Board of Commissioners, in the following unit:
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All regular full-time and part-time employees of the Employer classified as
9-1-1 dispatchers, but excluding the 9-1-1 Director, the Deputy Director
and all other County employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., May 19, 2016
By direction of the Board:
Gary Shinners
__________________________
Executive Secretary

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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).