HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1993.05.27 - 23241REPORT May 27, 1993
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - Donald W. Jensen, Chairperson
RE: MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #93076, RESCIND P. A. 312 OF 1969,
COMPULSORY ARBITRATION OF LABOR DISPUTES
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee, having reviewed the above
referenced resolution, reports with the recommendation that the
resolution be adopted with the BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED paragraph
amended by adding at the end, "Michigan Association of Counties,
Michigan Municipal League, Michigan Township Association, Senate
Leader, House Co-Speakers and the two pertinent Oakland County
Unions."
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I
move the acceptance of the foregoing report.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
REPORT May 27, 1993
BY: Personnel Committee, Marilynn E. Gosling, Chairperson
IN RE: MR 93076: Rescind P.A. 312 of 1969, Compulsory
Arbitration of Labor Disputes
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Personnel Committee, having reviewed the above-referenced
resolution on May 27, 1993, reports with the recommendation that
the resolution be adopted with the amendment proposed by the
General Government Committee.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Personnel Committee, I move
acceptance of the foregoing report.
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #93076 May 27, 1993
BY: Commissioner Sue Douglas, District #8
IN RE: Rescind P.A. 312 of 1969, Compulsory Arbitration of Labor
Disputes
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS P.A. 312 of 1969 was enacted on an experimental basis
in response to a public need to bring about an end to a perceived
outbreak of work stoppages amongst public safety employees; and
WHEREAS P.A. 312, while designed to provide for an alternate,
expeditious, effective and binding procedure for the resolution of
labor disputes, has had several unintended consequences which are
detrimental to the provision of responsible government for the
taxpayers; and
WHEREAS compulsory arbitration under P.A. 312 is first and
foremost an adversary process and, by default, creates a perceived
adversarial relationship between a governmental entity and its
public safety employees; and
WHEREAS the compulsory arbitration component of P.A. 312
wrestles control of negotiations from the hands of the interested
parties, those being the governmental entity and its public safety
employees, and surrenders jurisdiction in such matters to an
unaffiliated party; and
WHEREAS by virtue of the State's public policy prohibiting
strikes by public safety employees, the compulsory arbitration
component of P.A. 312 necessarily creates a differentiation between
collective bargaining practices amongst a governmental entity's
bargaining units and creates an elite bargaining process for public
safety employees; and
WHEREAS due to the stringent time constraints imposed by P.A.
312, compulsory arbitration may prevent the acquisition of
sufficient actuarial cost data necessary to determine the impact of
economic disputes on the taxpayers; and
WHEREAS it is in the best interest of its citizens that
Oakland County 1) have conformity and standardization between
collective bargaining procedures amongst all its bargaining units,
2) keep negotiations pertaining to collective bargaining disputes
in the hands of the interested parties, and 3) maintain sufficient
time to accurately and thoroughly assess the impact of each
disputed issue.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners hereby opposes the compulsory arbitration provisions
of P.A. 312 of 1969 and urges the Governor and Legislature to
rescind P.A. 312 in the best interests of the citizens of the state
of Michigan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be sent
to the Governor and Oakland County's delegation of state
legislators.
I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
Sue Ann Douglas, Commissioner
District #8
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Resolution #93076 May 27, 1993
Moved by Jensen supported by Wolf the General Government and Personnel
Committee Reports be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the reports were accepted.
Moved by Jensen supported by Wolf the resolution be amended to correspond
with the Reports.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the amendment was adopted.
Vote on resolution, as amended:
AYES: Gosling, Jensen, Johnson, Law, McCulloch, Miltner, Moffitt, Obrecht,
Palmer, Schmid, Wolf, Crake, Dingeldey, Douglas, Garfield. (15)
NAYS: Huntoon, Kaczmar, Kingzett, McPherson, Pernick, Powers, Price,
Aaron. (8)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution, as amended,
was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the
foregoing resolution is a true and accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the
Oakland County Board of Commissioners on May 27, 1993 with the original record
thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the
County of Oakland at Pontiac, Michigan this 27th day gf May 1993.
Lynr 0. Allen, County Clerk