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BAKER v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

Docket Nos. 59861-59863. (Calendar No. 8).

409 Mich. 639 (1980)

297 N.W.2d 387

BAKER v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION COLLIER v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION SEIDELL v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 16, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Fillion, Jordan Rossen, M. Jay Whitman, Leonard Page; Marston, Sachs, Nunn, Kates, Kadushin & O'Hare, P.C. (by Charles Looman); and Altshuler & Berzon (by Fred H. Altshuler, Stephen P. Berzon and Evelyn R. Frank) for plaintiffs.

Otis M. Smith, General Counsel, J.R. Wheatley, E.L. Hartwig, E.J. Dilworth, W.B. Rogers, W.R. Tucker, M.J. Connolly, and M. Alice McCann for defendant General Motors Corporation.

Amicus Curiae:

Rudolph L. Milasich, Jr., Carl B. Frankel, and Kasoff, Young, Gottesman, Kovinsky & Walkon (Bernard Kleiman, of counsel) for United Steel-workers of America.

LEVIN, J.

The issue in this case is whether the payment by union members of temporarily increased "emergency dues", authorized by an amendment to the union constitution, required as a condition of union membership and collected in designated amounts as part of the members' monthly dues, into a union strike fund during an ongoing national strike against another employer, disqualifies those members from receiving unemployment compensation benefits when they subsequently...

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