Southfield Police Officers Ass'n v. Southfield

In this case, the issue is whether the *172Michigan Employment Relations Commission used the appropriate standard in determining that the City of Southfield, a public employer, had not committed an unfair labor practice under the Michigan public employment relations act.1 The charge was filed against the city after it unilaterally transferred certain job duties, previously performed interchangeably by several bargaining units, to one of these groups. Because the transferred work had not been performed exclusively by the bargaining unit represented by the objecting labor organization, the merc…