DECISIONS

City of Mukilteo, Decision 12664 (PECB, 2017)

                                                       STATE OF WASHINGTON

                  BEFORE THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION

Anthony Falso, Shop Steward/Police Corporal, for the petitioner, Mukilteo Police Guild.

Daniel A. Swedlow, Attorney at Law, Summit Law Group PLLC, for the employer, City of Mukilteo.

Michael R. McCarthy, Attorney at Law, Reid, McCarthy, Ballew & Leahy, L.L.P., for the intervenor, Teamsters Local 763.

                                                            FINDINGS OF FACT

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

2.                  Teamsters Local 763 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 police officers employed by the City of Mukilteo, excluding the Chief of Police, supervisors, confidential employees, and casual 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; tallies of the results previously furnished to the parties are attached hereto; and no meritorious objections have been filed with respect to these proceedings.

                                           CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

1.                  The unit described in Finding 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 Mukilteo in the appropriate bargaining unit described in Finding of Fact 3 have chosen

                                                     MUKILTEO POLICE GUILD

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

ISSUED at Olympia, Washington, this  6th  day of March, 2017.

PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION

MICHAEL P. SELLARS, Executive Director