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December 2020

Name Subject Matter Date Issued Case Number(s) Topic(s)

Hemlock Public Schools -and- Emily Clayton

Unfair Labor Practice Not Found: Charging Party Failed to State Valid PERA Claim; Commission Does Not Have Jurisdiction Over Allegations Pertaining to Bullard-Plawecki and Title VII; Failure to Allege Facts to Establish That Employer Violated Charging Party's PERA Protected Rights; Charging Party Failed to Assert That She Requested, and Was Refused, Union Representation Prior to or During Her Meetings; Record Devoid of Factually Supported Allegations Suggesting That Either Meeting Was Investigatory in Nature. 

12/30/2020

18-L-2620-CE

(no exceptions)

Failure to State Claim; Commission Jurisdiction; Weingarten Rights
AFSCME Council 25, Local 2920 -and- Raymond Soto

Unfair Labor Practice Not Found: Failure to Respond to Show Cause Order May Warrant Dismissal of Charge; Charging Party Failed to State a Valid PERA Claim.

12/30/2020

20-H-1293-CU

(no exceptions)

Failure to Respond to Show Cause; Failure to State Claim 

Association of Professional & Technical Employees -and- Christopher Jones 
 

Unfair Labor Practice Not Found: Failure to Respond to Show Cause Order May Warrant Dismissal of Charge; Charging Party Failed to Appear at Hearing; Summary Dismissal Warranted. 

12/30/2020

20-A-0188-CU

(no exceptions)

Failure to Respond to Show Cause

City of Detroit (Pension Bureau)
-and-
Lennie Jackson

Unfair Labor Practice Not Found: Charging Party Failed to State Valid PERA Claim; No Legitimate Issues of Material Fact and Decision on Summary Disposition Appropriate; ALJ Correctly Concluded That Charging Party Did Not Have Authority to Order Respondent to Answer Interrogatories and That Charging Party Was Not Entitled to Discovery Under the Circumstances Involved in Case; Employer Obligated to Bargain With Union and Not an Individual Member.

12/8/2020

20-C-0512-CE

Failure to State Claim; Summary Disposition; Duty to Bargain

Detroit Retirement System
-and-
Lennie Jackson

Unfair Labor Practice Not Found: Commission Does Not Have Jurisdiction Over Claims Involving City Charter's or the Michigan Constitution; No Merit to Charging Party's Contention That ALJ Demonstrated Bias in Favor of Respondent; Ruling in Favor of a Party Insufficient to Establish Judicial Bias or Partiality.

12/8/2020

20-D-0750-CE

Commission Jurisdiction; Judicial Bias