STEARNS COUNTY, MINNESOTA

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Aug 28, 2014

18-WH-125233 (N.L.R.B. Aug. 28, 2014)

St. Cloud, MN
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
STEARNS COUNTY, MINNESOTA
Employer
and Case 18-WH-125233
LAW ENFORCEMENT LABOR SERVICES, INC.
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On March 24, 2014, Law Enforcement Labor Services, Inc. filed with the
Regional Director for Region 18 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 April 7, 2014, the Regional Director for Region 18 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,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 hereby certifies that Law Enforcement Labor

1 The record indicates that the State of Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services
certified the Petitioner as the exclusive collective-bargaining representative of
the unit employees on November 2, 2004, and that the parties’ current
collective-bargaining agreement is effective from January 1, 2013 through
December 31, 2015.
2
Services, Inc. is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of
the Dispatchers of Stearns County, Minnesota, in the following unit: 2
All essential nonlicensed employees of the Stearns County
Sheriff’s Department, St. Cloud. Minnesota, who are public
employees within the meaning of Minn. Stat. § 179A.03,
subd. 14, excluding supervisory, confidential, and licensed
essential employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., August 28, 2014.
By direction of the Board:
Gary W. 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).