Board of Governors/Western Illinois University

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

Nov 4, 2019

25-WH-247956 (N.L.R.B. Nov. 4, 2019)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
BOARD OF GOVERNORS/WESTERN
ILLINOIS UNIVERSTIY
Employer
and Case 25-WH-247956
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 September 9, 2019, the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council (the
Petitioner) filed with the Regional Director for Region 25 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 September 24, 2019, the Regional Director for Region 25 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 exclusive 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 certifies that the Illinois Fraternal Order of

1
The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer, and it contains a
copy of the Illinois Labor Relations Board’s Certification of Representative issued on
December 8, 1994, naming the Petitioner as the exclusive representative of the unit
employees.
2
Police Labor Council is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the
FLSA, of the employees of Board of Governors/Western Illinois University in the
following unit:2
Included: All personnel in fulltime, probationary or status positions in the
Civil Service Merit Board classifications of Police Telecommunicator,
Police Officer I, and Police Officer II.
Excluded: All supervisory, managerial, and confidential employees as
defined by the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act and all other
employees of the University including all full-time and part-time
administrative, professional and Civil Service Employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., November 4, 2019.
By direction of the Board:
Roxanne Rothschild
_________________
Executive Secretary

2
A certificate of representative as bona fide for purposes of the FLSA does not
necessarily establish the certified organization’s right to be recognized as the exclusive
bargaining representative under the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act. See
County of Alameda, 322 NLRB 614 (1996).