MEEKER COUNTY

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

May 3, 2017

18-WH-191882 (N.L.R.B. May. 3, 2017)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
MEEKER COUNTY
Employer
and Case 18-WH-191882
MINNESOTA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
ASSOCIATION
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On January 26, 2017, Minnesota Public Employees Association (MPEA) (the
Petitioner) filed with the Regional Director for Region 18 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 9, 2017, the Regional Director for Region 18 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,
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the Regional
Director recommended to the Board that the requested certification be issued.

1 The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer, and the case file
includes a copy of the parties’ most recent collective-bargaining agreement, effective by
its terms from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2018. The record also includes a
copy of the Certification of Exclusive Representative issued September 26, 2016, by the
State of Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services (BMS). The BMS certification also
approved the withdrawal of Teamsters Local 320 as the exclusive representative of the
unit employees. Previously, on August 6, 2009, the Board issued a Certification of
Representative as Bona Fide in favor of Teamsters Local 320 in Case 18-WH-000016.
In light of the withdrawal of Teamsters Local 320 as the exclusive representative of the
No party having shown cause why the requested certification should not be
issued, the National Labor Relations Board certifies that Minnesota Public Employees
Association is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of
the employees of the Borough of South River in the following unit:
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All personnel in the following job classifications: dispatcher,
correctional officer and jail programmer.
Dated, Washington, D.C., May 3, 2017
By direction of the Board:
Gary Shinners
__________________________
Executive Secretary

unit employees, the August 6, 2009 Certification of Representative as Bona Fide is
revoked.
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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).