Mower County

National Labor Relations Board - Unpublished Board Decisions

Jun 15, 2020

18-WH-258978 (N.L.R.B. Jun. 15, 2020)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
MOWER COUNTY
Employer
and Case 18-WH-258978
LAW ENFORCEMENT LABOR SERVICES
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(b) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On April 10, 2020, Law Enforcement Labor Services (the Petitioner) 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 16, 2020, 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
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 Law Enforcement Labor
1
The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer, and it contains a
copy of the parties’ current collective-bargaining agreement, effective by its terms from
July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2020, as well as a copy of the Certification of Exclusive
Representative issued on December 5, 1980, by the State of Minnesota Bureau of
Mediation Services (BMS).
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2
Services is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of the
employees of Mower County in the following unit:2
All 911/dispatchers employed at the Austin-Mower County Law Enforcement
Center.
Dated, Washington, D.C., June 15, 2020.
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).