DECISIONS

City of Des Moines, Decision 12656 (PECB, 2017)

                                                       STATE OF WASHINGTON

                  BEFORE THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION

Pamela McConville, the decertification petitioner.

Bruce L. Schroeder, Attorney at Law, Summit Law Group PLLC, for the employer, City of Des Moines.

Terry Jensen, Attorney at Law, for the intervenor, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, District Lodge 160.

                                                            FINDINGS OF FACT

1.                  Pamela McConville filed with the Public Employment Relations Commission a petition concerning representation of employees of the City of Des Moines.  The petition was timely filed and accompanied by a showing of interest administratively determined by the Commission to be sufficient.

2.                  The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, District Lodge 160 is the incumbent labor organization that represented the petitioned‑for employees and was granted status as intervenor in these proceedings.

3.                  These representation proceedings were conducted under the supervision of the Commission in the bargaining unit described as:

All full-time and regular part-time Court Clerks and Lead Court Clerks employed by the City of Des Moines, excluding supervisors, confidential employees, and all other employees.

4.                  All proceedings were conducted in a manner designed to afford the affected employees a free choice in the selection of their bargaining representative, if any; a tally of the results previously furnished to the parties is attached hereto; and no meritorious objections have been filed with respect to these proceedings.

                                           CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

1.                  The unit described in Findings of Fact 3 is an appropriate unit for the purpose of collective bargaining within the meaning of RCW 41.56.060.

2.                  All conditions precedent to a certification have been met.

                                                               CERTIFICATION

The employees of the City of Des Moines in the appropriate bargaining unit described in Findings of Fact 3 have chosen:

                                                         NO REPRESENTATION

as their representative for the purpose of collective bargaining with their employer.

ISSUED at Olympia, Washington, this  30th  day of January 2017.

PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION

MICHAEL P. SELLARS, Executive Director