Livingston County v. Livingston Circuit Judge

We granted leave to appeal, 391 Mich 781 (1974), to consider questions raised by Livingston County’s Board of Commissioners in connection with the first collective bargaining contract settled upon by a local judiciary and its employees to be tested in this Court. We affirm earlier decisions in deciding that the bargaining parties basically utilized correct procedures, but *272we reach no conclusion as to the reasonableness or necessity of the contractual provisions.

On September 22, 1972, the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) certified Michigan Council 55, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, as a…