BERRIEN COUNTY PROBATE JUDGES v. AFSCME

Docket No. 169900.

550 N.W.2d 859 (1996)

217 Mich. App. 205

BERRIEN COUNTY PROBATE JUDGES and Berrien County, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. MICHIGAN AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY and MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES COUNCIL 25, AFL-CIO, and AFSCME Local 2757, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided June 14, 1996, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication July 29, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Taglia, Fette, Dumke, Passaro & Kahne, P.C. by Thomas R. Fette, St. Joseph, for the Berrien County Probate Judges.

Thomas K. Byerley, Berrien County Corporation Counsel, St. Joseph, for Berrien County.

Miller, Cohen, Martens, Ice & Geary, P.C. by Stuart M. Israel and Georgi-Ann Oshagan, Southfield, for defendant.

Before NEFF, P.J., and YOUNG and MORROW, JJ.


NEFF, Presiding Judge.

Defendants appeal from an order of the circuit court vacating an arbitrator's original award in this labor dispute. The dispute in this case is whether two governmental units from different branches of government can be joint employers. We find that they cannot be joint employers and we affirm the circuit court's order.

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