Allegan County

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Oct 17, 2016

07-WH-181501 (N.L.R.B. Oct. 17, 2016)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
ALLEGAN COUNTY
Employer
and Case 07-WH-181501
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES LABOR COUNCIL
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On August 2, 2016, Government Employees Labor Council (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 August 17, 2016, 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 Government Employees Labor

1 The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer, and includes a
copy of the parties’ current collective-bargaining agreement, effective January 1, 2016
to December 31, 2016, covering the unit employees.
Council is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of the
employees of Allegan County in the following unit:
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All regular full-time Central Dispatch Department personnel employed in
Allegan County, but excluding all part-time, supervisory, temporary, and
seasonal employees and all other employees of Allegan County Central
Dispatch Department and the County of Allegan.
Dated, Washington, D.C., October 17, 2016.
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).