| CASE |
RESULT |
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Act 312 Arbitration
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City of Lathrup Village
The City won four out of six issues, the right to subcontract the third shift of the police department and health care concessions. |
City Won |
City of
Romulus
The City won 11 of
14 issues, including pension, promotions, health care cost and other
containment issues. |
City Won |
City of
Romulus
(patrol officers) |
Settled |
City of Trenton
The City won eight out of thirteen issues, including pension and health care cost containment for active employees and retirees. |
City Won |
City of
Woodhaven
The City won
seven out of ten
issues, including four out of five years' wages and health insurance
changes for active employees and future retirees. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The city won both pension issues, including
maintaining a defined contribution plan. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The City won five out of seven issues, including wages (2%, 2%, 2%), residency and a new defined contribution pension benefit for new hires. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The City won thirteen out of sixteen issues, including five pension demands, health insurance, dental insurance and long-term disability insurance. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The City won twelve out of seventeen issues, including a wage package
of 0%-1%-3%, no changes to the pension plan, a reduction in the sick leave payout and removal of the Fire Chief from the union. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The City won all three issues (wages, residency and shift selection). |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The City won two of three pension issues and eliminated the minimum manning provision.
|
City Won |
Cheboygan County
The County won 4 out of 5 issues involving wages, retiree health insurance and pension. |
County Won |
City of Sylvan Lake
The City won the only issue, shift rotation. |
City Won |
City of Bloomfield Hills
The City lost the only issue in the arbitration, switching new hires to a defined contribution pension plan. |
City Lost |
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City of Northville |
Settled |
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City of Huntington Woods |
Settled |
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City of Northville (fact-finding) |
Settled |
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Grosse Pointe Library (fact-finding) |
Library Won |
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Genesee County
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Settled |
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Grievance Arbitration
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Genesee County
The arbitrator sustained the discharge of a command officer.
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County Won |
Genesee County
The arbitrator ruled that the County had the right to subcontract bargaining unit work. |
County Won |
Genesee County
The arbitrator upheld the termination of a non-union employee. |
County Won |
Genesee County
The arbitrator upheld the
County's right to re-assign employees. |
County Won |
City of Romulus
The arbitrator sustained the
discharge of a laborer. |
City Won |
City of Romulus
The arbitrator reduced the discharge of two firefighters to a ten month unpaid suspension. |
Split Decision |
City of Wyandotte
The arbitrator sustained the termination of a firefighter. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The arbitrator denied the Union’s argument that three command officers were entitled to overtime pay for testifying on behalf of the Union in a Police and Fire Commission Trial Board hearing. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The arbitrator sustained the Police Department’s three day suspension of a patrol officer. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The arbitrator sustained the Police Department’s one day suspension of a patrol officer. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The arbitrator sustained the Police Department administration’s right to require patrol officers to remain on their assigned beats, until authorized to leave their beat. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The arbitrator reversed the City’s decision to terminate a firefighter, but reinstated him without back pay. |
Split Decision |
City of Wyandotte
The arbitrator denied the Union’s argument that it was entitled to an automatic wage increase based on the patrol officers’ contract. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The arbitrator ruled that the City did not need to fill the Assistant Fire Chief position. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The arbitrator ruled that the City did not violate the contract during its snow plow operations. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The arbitrator sustained the discipline issued to a police officer. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
The arbitrator denied the Union’s demand that the Fire Chief be paid the same wages as the Police Chief. |
City Won |
City of Lathrup Village
The arbitrator reinstated a police officer without ten months' back pay. |
Split Decision |
City of Lathrup Village
The arbitrator reinstated the command officer without without twelve months' back pay. |
Split Decision |
City of Mt. Morris
The arbitrator reinstated the police officer with back pay. |
City Lost |
City of Northville
The arbitrator ruled that a dispute over a tentative agreement has to be
resolved by MERC. |
City Won |
City of Northville
The arbitrator ruled that the City properly filled a non-Union position. |
City Won |
City of Northville
The arbitrator ruled that the police officer was properly suspended. |
City Won |
City of Northville
The arbitrator ruled that the City properly filled the vacancy. |
City Won |
City of Northville
The arbitrator ruled that the City had the right to advance an employee on the wage scale. |
City Won |
City of Northville
The arbitrator ruled that he would not order that a new collective bargaining agreement was invalid. |
City Won |
Lake Erie Transportation Commission
The arbitrator ruled that the employer properly terminated the employee for lying about an accident. |
Employer Won |
Lake Erie Transportation Commission
The arbitrator ruled that the employer properly discharged a bus driver for tardiness and granted him three days' back pay for a second grievance. |
Employer Won |
Lake Erie Transportation Commission
The arbitrator ruled that the employer property terminated a driver for tardiness. |
Employer Won |
Lake Erie Transportation Commission
The arbitrator ruled that the employer properly discharged a (different) bus driver for tardiness. |
Employer Won |
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Litigation |
Grosse Pointe District Library
Eighteen current employees sued the Library claiming that they should be included in the City of Harper Woods' Retirement System. The Library filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which was granted by the judge. |
Library Won |
City of Wyandotte
Eleven former police chiefs, deputy chiefs and inspectors and their spouses sued the City claiming a contractual entitlement to reimbursement of Medicare premiums. The City filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which was granted by the judge. The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of the case. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
A former command officer sued the City claiming constitutional violations for the City's denial for claimed pension benefits. At an early state of the litigation, the Court dismissed the lawsuit in the City's favor. |
City Won |
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MERC
Decisions |
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Lake Erie Transportation Commission
A terminated employee filed an unfair labor practice charge alleging the Commission retaliated against him for testifying in a prior MERC hearing. |
Commission Won |
Lake Erie Transportation Commission
A current employee filed an unfair labor practice charge alleging the Commission retaliated against him for past Union activity. Both the Administrative Law Judge and Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) dismissed the Charge and upheld the employer's decision. |
Commission Won |
City of Wyandotte
MERC ruled that the City did not have an obligation to bargain over pension benefits in the last year of the contract. |
City Won |
City of Wyandotte
MERC ruled that a clerical employee could not be represented by the Firefighters' Union. |
City Won |
Cheboygan County
MERC ruled that the corrections officers were not eligible for Act 312 arbitration. |
County Won |
Gross Pointe Library - and -
MEA
MERC ruled that the Library did not
have to add substitute librarians to the bargaining unit. |
Library Won |
City of Northville - and - COAM
The arbitrator ruled that a dispute
over a tentative agreement had to be resolved by MERC. |
City Won |
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