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August 9, 1079 Miscellaneous Rsolution 9070
BY: General cGve -,-.n.7-aent Committee-Robert H. Gorsline, Chairperson
IN RE: oposition to H34645, Public Employees Right to Strike
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the proposed House Bill No. 4645 would provide for legal
public employee strikes excluding police and fire employees; and
V.TEREAS the act would prohibit injunctive relief unless irreparable
harm to health and safety could be proven; and
r.7.-iEREAS the County of Oakland could not support this Legislation
unless e:.:tensive amendments were made as follows:
A. Police and fire personnel included in the Act (with subsequent
abolition of Act 312).
Vnen an impasse is reached, allow the employer the right to
agree to binding arbitration. Should the employer not agree to
arbitration, the union would then be permitted to call a strike.
C. Should the employer agree to binding arbitration, the following
rules would apply:
I. Supervisory employees be exempted from collective bargaining
and binding arbitration.
2. Limit retroactivity of awards so that they may be effective
only at the beginning of the next fiscal year, except where
a new fiscal year had commenced since the initiation of
arbitration procedures. This would be reinstating the
provisions of the law prior to the 1977 amendment on retro-
activity.
3. Limit the number and the types of issues which can be
arbitrated.
4. Require mediators to certify in writing that the parties have
exhausted their ability to compromise and an impasse exists.
5. Require the mediator to document the nature of the impasse
and to allow this information to be made public.
6. Require M.E.R.C. to promulgate rules which would standardize
procedures for holding arbitration hearings and standardize
the format for the written award.
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7. Require M.E.R.C. to publish all awards at state expense.
8. Require the state to pay all expenses incurred should the
employer agree to binding arbitration.
WHEREAS the House Bill 4645, as written, is not in the best interest
of the County of Oakland;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the County of Oakland go on record
as being in opposition to the passage of House Bill 4645 and that the County
Clerk be directed to send copies of this resolution to all Oakland County
Legislators and the County's Legislative Agent.
The General Government Committee, by Robert H. Gorsline, Chairman, moves
the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
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Robert H. Gorsline, Chairman ,
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Moved by Gorsline supported by Wilcox the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Price supported by Moore the resolution be referred to the Personnel
Committee.
Vote on referral:
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.