South East Regional Emergency Services Authority (SERESA)

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

Jul 19, 2017

07-WH-193855 (N.L.R.B. Jul. 19, 2017)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
SOUTH EAST REGIONAL EMERGENCY
SERVICES AUTHORITY (SERESA)
Employer
and Case 07-WH-193855
POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN
(POAM)
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On February 27, 2017, Police Officers Association of Michigan (POAM) on behalf
of the South East Regional Emergency Services Authority Communications Union (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 March 20, 2017, the Regional Director for Region 7 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 Police Officers Association of

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 July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2019.
Michigan (POAM) is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the
FLSA, of the employees of South East Regional Emergency Services Authority in the
following unit:
2
All employees of the Employer, but excluding the Executive
Director and the Dispatch Supervisors.
Dated, Washington, D.C., July 19, 2017
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).