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November 2020

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

St. Clair Community College
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St. Clair Community College Career Plan Association
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St. Clair Community Educational Support SPA MEA/NEA 

Petition for Unit Clarification Granted: Petitioner’s Petition Granted to Clarify its Bargaining Unit to Include the Positions of Public Safety Officer and Campus Patrol Cadet; Public Safety Officer Should Have Been Placed in ESPA Unit Because it Shared a Community of Interest and the Employer’s Placement in the Career Plan Unit was in Bad Faith and an Attempt to Displace Work From the ESPA Unit; Campus Patrol Cadet Shares Community of Interest with ESPA Unit and the College Has Not Carried its Burden to Show That the Position Should Be Excluded From Bargaining. 

11/12/2020

19-J-1987-UC

Unit Clarification; Community of Interest; Bad Faith Placement

Grand Rapids Independent Union
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Tatyana Ford

Unfair Labor Practice Not Found: Commission Found No “Clear Evidence” Supporting a Basis Upon Which to Reverse ALJ’s  Credibility Determinations; Lack of Evidence in the Record Upon Which to Conclude That the Union Violated PERA by Expelling Charging Party; The Dissent Agreed With Charging Party’s Argument That the Union Violated § 10(2)(a) When it Expelled Her From the Union in Retaliation for Filing Prior Unfair Labor Practice Charges With the Commission; He Further Argued the Credibility Determinations and Findings of Fact Made by the ALJ to be Mischaracterizations of the Record That Were Not Supported by Substantial Evidence

11/12/2020

CU18 E-009

Credibility Determination; 10(2)(a)