Applicable Standards . The appropriate unit Council 65 seeks to represent in this case consists of an essential supervisory unit of the City of Rushford Police Department. This would be a single-employee bargaining unit including the position of Chief of Police. For the purpose of this subdivision, affiliation means either direct or indirect and includes affiliation through a federation or joint body of employee organizations . However, the language of Minn. Stat.
Supervisory employees serve as the representative of the employer in the workplace.
The statute adopts a general prohibition against supervisory and non-supervisory employees of the same employer having the same exclusive representative. The reason is to avoid perceived or actual conflicts of interest. Upon reconsideration, we are persuaded that because the supervisory bargaining unit Council 65 seeks to represent consists of peace officers subject to licensure, the exception is satisfied. Thus, Council 65 may represent both the non-supervisory bargaining units currently certified as well as the supervisory police officer bargaining unit. Single-Position Unit .