Michigan Teachers Can Exit Union Anytime: State Supreme Court

Michigan teachers can quit their unions anytime of the year after the Michigan Supreme Court refused to hear a series of appeals of right-to-work court victories.

The high court issued a one-paragraph order March 23 dealing a blow to public unions and denying the appeal of 11 consolidated cases in which lower courts held that a Michigan Education Association rule violated Michigan’s right-to-work law. The order leaves a 2017 Michigan Court of Appeals decision that the one-month window for members to quit the union violated state law’s prohibition against coercing or compelling a public employee to become or remain a ...