Appeals court to hear emergency manager arguments
Posted: 05/17/2012
DETROIT (AP MODIFIED) - Michigan's Court of Appeals is hearing arguments today in a lawsuit challenging a vote that kept the fate of the state's emergency manager law off November's ballot.
Stand Up for Democracy will make its case this morning in Detroit.
The UAW is urging its members to show their support by gathering outside the Cadillac Place at 9 a.m. where the hearing is scheduled to begin an hour later.
The state Board of Canvassers voted 2-2 last month on a request to place the year-old emergency manager law before voters. The tie vote kept the measure off the ballot.
Under the law, state-appointed emergency managers have the power to bypass collective bargaining and restructure union contracts as an avenue to civic cost-cutting.
Emergency managers are in place in Detroit, Highland Park and Muskegon Heights public schools. They're also running the financial operations of the cities of Benton Harbor, Flint, Pontiac and Ecorse.
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