Master Security Company, LLC

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Dec 16, 2014

05-RC-129198 (N.L.R.B. Dec. 16, 2014)

1
Suitland, MD
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
MASTER SECURITY COMPANY, LLC
Employer
and Case 05-RC-129198
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL
POLICE AND SECURITY OFFICERS
Petitioner
and
INTERNATIONAL UNION, SECURITY,
POLICE AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS OF
AMERICA (SPFPA) LOCAL NO. 131
Intervenor
DECISION AND CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE
The National Labor Relations Board, by a three-member panel, has considered objections
to an election held between July 2 and July 23, 2014, and the hearing officer’s report
recommending disposition of them. The tally of ballots shows 17 for the Petitioner, 13 for the
Intervenor and 1 against representation, with 1 challenged ballot, an insufficient number to affect
the results.
The Board has reviewed the record in light of the exceptions and briefs, has adopted the
hearing officer’s findings and recommendations,1 and finds that a certification of representative
should be issued.

1 In adopting the hearing officer’s recommendation to overrule Intervenor’s Objection 3, we find
in agreement with the hearing officer that the statements at issue conveyed no coercive
messages, threats, or promises. In light of this finding, we find it unnecessary to pass on the
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CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE
IT IS CERTIFIED that a majority of the valid ballots have been cast for National
Association of Special Police and Security Officers and that it is the exclusive collective-
bargaining representative of the employees in the following appropriate unit:
All full-time and regular part-time armed security officers employed by the
Employer for uniformed security services at the U.S. Census Bureau headquarters
currently located at 4600 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, Maryland, but excluding all
office clerical employees, professional employees, managerial employees,
lieutenants, captains, and supervisors as defined in the Act.
Dated, Washington, D.C., December 16, 2014.
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Mark Gaston Pearce, Chairman
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Kent Y. Hirozawa, Member
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Harry I. Johnson, III, Member
(SEAL) NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

hearing officer’s additional finding that the statements at issue were not heard by a determinative
number of employees.