Appearances:

For Petitioner:            Lathell J. Bales, Secretary-Treasurer

For Employer:            Dale T. Bailey, Chief of Police

FINDINGS OF FACT

1.        The above-named Petitioner timely filed with the Commission a petition for investigation of a question concerning representation of employees of the above-named employer; said petition was accompanied by a showing of interest which was administratively determined by the Commission to be sufficient; and the employer declined voluntarily to extend recognition to the Petitioner as the exclusive bargaining representative of its employees.

2.        The organization(s), if any, listed as intervenors above timely moved for intervention in the captioned proceedings; and said motion(s) for intervention was in each case supported by a showing of interest which was administratively determined by the Commission to be sufficient.

3.        These representation proceedings were conducted by the Commission in the bargaining unit described as:

Included:                        All police officers of the City of Castle Rock, Washington.

Excluded:           The Chief of Police.

4.         All proceedings were conducted under the supervision of the Commission in a manner designed to afford the affected employees a free choice in the select-ion of their bargaining representative, if any; a tally of the results was pre-viously furnished to the parties and is attached hereto; and no meritorious ob-jections have been filed with respect to these proceedings.

CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

The unit described in finding of fact number 3 is an appropriate unit for the purposes of collective bargaining within the meaning of RCW 41.56; and all conditions precedent to a certification have been met.

NOW, THEREFORE, it is

CERTIFIED

The majority of the employees of the above named employer employed in the appropriate collective bargaining unit described in finding of fact number 3 have chosen:

Teamsters Union Local No. 58

as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining with their employer with respect to wages, hours and conditions of employment.

Issued at Olympia, Washington, this 13th day of September 1978.

PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION

By:[SIGNED]