November 2011

20 Day Order - MERC no longer prepares summaries on decisions without exceptions.

20 Day Order - MERC no longer prepares summaries on decisions without exceptions.

Unfair Labor Practice Found; Unilateral Change; Employees’ Receipt of Paid Association Release Time was Established Term or Condition of Employment; Employer Violated Duty to Bargain By Eliminating Paid Association Release Time Without First Giving Unions Notice and Opportunity to Bargain.

Motion for Reconsideration Denied: Charging Party Failed to Set Forth Adequate Grounds for Reconsideration; A Reconsideration Request that Merely Presents the Same Issues Already Ruled on by the Commission Will Be Denied pursuant to Commission Rule 167. 

Unfair Labor Practice Not Found: Summary Dismissal Appropriate Where Charge Failed to State a Valid Claim Under PERA; Allegations Did Not Indicate that Respondent’s Conduct Breached Its Duty of Fair Representation Owed to Charging Party;  Charge Failed to Contain Any Factually Based Allegations that the Union’s Decision Not to Process Charging Party’s Grievance was Arbitrary, Capricious, Prejudicial or Made in Bad Faith; Mere Disagreement with a Union’s Decision or Efforts on a Grievance, Alone, Does Not Establish Sufficient Basis for a PERA Claim Against the Union.

Traverse City Power and Light
-and- Utility Workers of America, Local 285

20 Day Order - MERC no longer prepares summaries on decisions without exceptions.

Michigan State Government
Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
Bureau of Employment Relations

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