ANOKA COUNTY

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Aug 28, 2014

18-WH-126117 (N.L.R.B. Aug. 28, 2014)

Anoka County, MN
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
ANOKA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
Employer
and Case 18-WH-126117
LAW ENFORCEMENT LABOR SERVICES, INC.
Petitioner
CORRECTED1 CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On April 8, 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 29, 2014, the Regional Director for Region 18 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,2 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
Services, Inc. is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of

1 The case number was previously incorrectly listed as “18-WH-126177.”
2 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 1, 2013, and that the parties are in the process
of bargaining for a first collective-bargaining agreement.
2
the Essential Dispatchers of Anoka County, Minnesota, in the following unit: 3
All essential non-licensed 911 System Dispatchers
employed by the County of Anoka in its Central
Communications Unit, Anoka, 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

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).