Macomb/McDonough County Emergency Dispatch Center

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 16, 2014

25-WH-110998 (N.L.R.B. Apr. 16, 2014)

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Macomb and McDonough, IL
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
MACOMB/MCDONOUGH COUNTY
EMERGENCY DISPATCH CENTER
Employer
and Case 25-WH-110998
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 (Petitioner)
filed with the Regional Director for Region 25 of the National Labor Relations Board1 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 22, 2013, 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.2

1 The petition was received at Subregion 33 by the Officer-in-Charge, who acted on
behalf of the Regional Director for Region 25 in this proceeding.
2 The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer and that the
Employer and the Petitioner are parties to a collective-bargaining agreement valid
by its terms from December 1, 2010 through November 30, 2013, covering the
bargaining unit employees’ wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of
employment.
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No party having shown cause why the requested certification should not be
issued, the National Labor Relations Board hereby certifies that Illinois Fraternal Order
of Police Labor Council is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the
FLSA, of the employees of Macomb, Illinois in the following unit:3
All full-time Telecommunicators employed by the Macomb/McDonough
County Emergency Dispatch Center, but excluding the Director and
Assistant Director of the Communications Center; all part-time and
temporary Employees; and all supervisors, confidential and managerial
Employees as defined by the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act.
Dated, Washington, D.C., April 16, 2014.
By direction of the Board:
Gary Shinners
__________________________
Executive Secretary

3 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).