Village of Wheeling

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

May 23, 2016

13-WH-168638 (N.L.R.B. May. 23, 2016)

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Wheeling, IL
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
VILLAGE OF WHEELING
Employer
and Case 13-WH-168638
COMBINED COUNTIES POLICE ASSOCIATION
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On January 28, 2016, Combined Counties Police Association (the Petitioner)
filed with the Regional Director for Region 13 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 23, 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 Combined Counties

1 The record indicates that the Employer, Village of Wheeling, is a public sector
employer and that the Petitioner and the Employer have been parties to consecutive
collective-bargaining agreements, the most recent of which is effective by its terms
from May 1, 2014 through April 30, 2016.
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Police Association is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the
FLSA, of the employees of Village of Wheeling in the following unit:
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All regular full-time employees and regular part-time
employees over twenty (20) hours a week, with the position
of Police Radio Operator for the Village of Wheeling, all full-
time employees with the position of Records Clerk, and all
full-time employees with the position of Community Service
Officer, but excluding such employees who occupy a
position involving matters of a confidential nature, and all
management, professional, administrative or supervisory
employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., May 23, 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).