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State high court overturns decision on firefighters layoffs

In the Pontiac labor dispute, the Michigan Supreme Court court ruled 4-3 in favor of the city and against Pontiac Fire Fighters Union Local 376, scrapping the 2006 injunction against layoffs by Oakland County Circuit Court Judge John McDonald. The firefighters union pursued a labor grievance and went to court seeking an injunction against city officials’ plans to lay off 28 firefighters, due to budget constraints. The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld the injunction but was also split in its decision. “We are not second-guessing the (local judge)’s discretion to substitute the outcome we prefer,” the Supreme Court majority opinion states. “For reasons that are unclear, the circuit court in … granting the preliminary injunction seemed to credit only (the union)’s allegations and did not at all consider (Pontiac)’s contrary evidence.”^[1]

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