Bonneville v. Michigan Corrections Organization

Plaintiffs appeal as of right a January 8,1989, order granting summary disposition in favor of defendant and dismissing plaintiffs’ fair-representation claim. We affirm.

The facts are undisputed. The ten plaintiffs are all corrections officers at the Kinross Correctional Facility and are members of the bargaining unit represented by defendant. In March 1988, plaintiffs, as a class, filed a grievance with defendant, claiming that they were performing work at a higher classification than that for which they were being paid. The union appealed the claim through the third step of the grievance…