City of Roodhouse

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 26, 2014

14-WH-111060 (N.L.R.B. Mar. 26, 2014)

1
Roodhouse, IL
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
CITY OF ROODHOUSE
Employer
and Case 14-WH-111060
ILLINOIS FRATERNAL ORDER OF
POLICE LABOR COUNCIL
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On August 12, 2013, Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council filed with the
Regional Director for Region 14 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 16, 2013, the Regional Director served on the parties an Order 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 the Illinois Fraternal

1 The record indicates Employer is a public sector employer and that the State of Illinois
Labor Relations Board State Panel issued a Certification of Representative establishing
the Petitioner as the representative of the unit employees. The record further indicates
that the parties support the petition and are in the process of bargaining for an initial
collective-bargaining agreement.
2
Order of Police Labor Council is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b)
of the FLSA, of the employees of Roodhouse, Illinois in the following bargaining unit: 2
Included: All full-time employees of the City of Roodhouse in
the following title: Dispatcher.
Excluded: All other employees employed with the Village of
Roodhouse
Dated, Washington, D.C., March 26, 2014.
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).