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AFSCME v. CITY OF DETROIT

Docket Nos. 122053, 122091, Calendar No. 9.

662 N.W.2d 695 (2003)

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, also known as AFSCME, doing business as AFSCME Local 23 and AFSCME Local 2394, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Detroit City Council, Intervening Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF DETROIT and Detroit Housing Commission, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 17, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martens, Ice, Geary, Klass, Legghio, Israel & Gorchow, P.C. (by Renate Klass), Southfield, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Pitt, Dowty, McGehee, Mirer & Palmer, P.C. (by Robert W. Palmer), Royal Oak, and F. Philip Colista, Detroit, for Detroit City Council.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C. (by John H. Willems and Leonard D. Givens), Detroit, for city of Detroit and the Detroit Housing Commission.

OPINION

MICHAEL F. CAVANAGH, J.

We granted leave to appeal in this case to determine whether the 1996 amendments of the Michigan housing facilities act, M.C.L. § 125.651 et seq., sever the employment relationship between a municipality and its housing commission by operation of law. We hold that the 1996 amendments, specifically M.C.L. § 125.655(3), do sever a coemployment relationship ...

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