UAW v. GREEN

Docket No. 314781.

839 N.W.2d 1 (2013)

302 Mich. App. 246

UAW v. GREEN.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Submitted without oral argument April 11, 2013.

Decided August 15, 2013, at 9:10 a.m.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Wertheimer , Bingham Farms, Michael B. Nicholson , Buchanan, and Ava R. Barbour , Detroit, for the UAW and UAW Local 6000.

William A. Wertheimer and Sachs Waldman, PC, Detroit (by Andrew Nickelhoff ), for Michigan Corrections Organization, SEIU Local 526; and Michigan Public Employees, SEIU Local 517M.

William A. Wertheimer , Bingham Farms, and Fraser, Trebilcock, Davis & Dunlap, PC, Lansing (by Michael E. Cavanaugh and Brandon W. Zuk ), for Michigan State Employees Association, AFSCME, Local 5.

Bill Schuette , Attorney General, John J. Bursch , Solicitor General, Richard A. Bandstra , Chief Legal Counsel, and Ann M. Sherman and Margaret A. Nelson , Assistant Attorneys General, for Nino E. Green, Edward D. Callaghan, Robert LaBrant, the Governor, and the Attorney General.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, PLC, Lansing (by Michael J. Hodge and Scott R. Eldridge ), for Amicus Curiae the Civil Service Commission.

Before: SAAD, P.J., and DONOFRIO and GLEICHER, JJ.


SAAD, P.J.

I. INTRODUCTION

As an intermediate appellate court, we typically decide appeals of orders issued by lower courts. But here, the Legislature placed in this Court exclusive original jurisdiction over challenges to 2012 PA 349 (PA 349), colloquially called a "right to work" law. MCL 423.210(6). PA 349 amends the public employment relations act (PERA), MCL 423.201 et seq.,1 and states that public employers—...

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