Regents of the University v. Employment Relations Commission

How courts have described this case

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• holding that \[p]roblems concerning the disputes between employees and public employers . . . [are] a matter of public policy\ and that the University of Michigan was therefore not exempt from the state public employees relations act
• holding that the Michigan Public Employment Relations Act applies to the University and does not infringe on its constitutional autonomy so long as the scope of public employee bargaining under the Act does not infringe on the University’s autonomy in the educational sphere
• “A conflict between the constitution and the statute is clearly a legal question which only a court can decide”
• “We do not regard these two categories as mutually exclusive. Interns, residents and post-doctoral fellows are both students and employees”
• University of Michigan held to be a public employer subject to the provisions of the public employment relations act, MCL 423.201 et seq.; MSA 17.455[1] et seq.
• “A conflict between the constitution and the statute is clearly a legal question which only a court can decide”

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