MICHIGAN AFL-CIO v. EMPLOYMENT REL. COM'N

Docket Nos. 103918, 103937 and 103938, Calendar Nos. 8-9.

551 N.W.2d 165 (1996)

453 Mich. 362

MICHIGAN STATE AFL-CIO, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION, Defendant-Appellee. MICHIGAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GOVERNOR OF the STATE OF MICHIGAN, and the Employment Relations Commission, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided August 2, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sachs, Waldman, O'Hare, Helveston, Bogas & McIntosh, P.C. by Theodore Sachs, Eileen Nowikowski, and Andrew Nickelhoff, Detroit, for appellant Michigan State AFL-CIO.

Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C. by Theodore W. Swift, Stephen O. Schultz, Michael J. Bommarito, and Peter R. Albertins, Lansing, for appellant Michigan Education Association.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Christine A. Derdarian and Jon M. DeHorn, Assistant Attorneys General, Detroit, for defendants.

Thrun, Maatsch & Nordberg, P.C. by Kevin S. Harty and Cheryl Takacs Bell, Lansing, for Michigan Association of School Boards, amicus curiae.

Erwin B. Ellmann, Southfield, and George E. Bushnell, Jr., Detroit, for American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan, amicus curiae.


BRICKLEY, Chief Justice.

In this case plaintiffs question the constitutionality of several provisions of 1994 P.A. 112, which amended the public employment relations act. The circuit court upheld all but two provisions of the act. The Court of Appeals affirmed. This Court unanimously affirms the Court of Appeals except with respect to 1994 P.A. 112, § 17. However, the signers of this opinion would affirm the judgment...

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