DETROIT FIRE FIGHTERS ASS'N IAFF LOCAL 344 v. CITY OF DETROIT

Docket No. 131463. Calendar No. 7.

753 N.W.2d 579 (2008)

DETROIT FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION IAFF LOCAL 344, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF DETROIT, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 23, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Helveston & Helveston, P.C. (by Ronald R. Helveston and Mindy M. Schwartz) Detroit, for the Detroit Fire Fighters Association.

Bruce A. Campbell, for the city of Detroit.

Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Richard P. Gartner, Assistant Attorney General, for the Michigan Employment Relations Commission, amicus curiae.

Dykema Gossett, PLLC (by John A. Entenman, Melvin J. Muskovitz, and F. Arthur Jones II), Ann Arbor, for the Michigan Municipal League, amicus curiae.

Nantz, Litowich, Smith, Firard & Hamilton (by John H. Gretzinger), Grand Rapids, for the city of Iron Mountain, amicus curiae.


OPINION

YOUNG, J.

At issue in this public labor law dispute between plaintiff Detroit Fire Fighters Association and defendant city of Detroit is whether the circuit court properly issued a preliminary injunction to prevent the implementation of defendant's proposed layoff and restructuring plan where plaintiff contends that the plan violates the "status quo" provision of 1969 P.A. 312 (Act 312), MCL 423.243, by, among other things, jeopardizing the safety...

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