Michigan Compiled Laws
Mich. Comp. Laws § 423.203 (2026)
Public employees; persons in authority approving or consenting to strike prohibited; participating in submittal of grievance.
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PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS
Act 336 of 1947
423.203 Public employees; persons in authority approving or consenting to strike prohibited; participating in submittal of grievance.
Sec. 3.
No person exercising any authority, supervision or direction over any public employee shall have the power to authorize, approve or consent to a strike by public employees, and such person shall not authorize, approve or consent to such strike, nor shall any such person discharge or cause any public employee to be discharged or separated from his or her employment because of participation in the submission of a grievance in accordance with the provisions of section 7.
History: 1947, Act 336, Eff. Oct. 11, 1947 ;-- CL 1948, 423.203 ;-- Am. 1965, Act 379, Imd. Eff. July 23, 1965
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Public Employment RelationsNotes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1975–1984 · leading case: Rockwell v. Crestwood Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., 227 N.W.2d 736 (Mich. 1975).
Rockwell v. Crestwood Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., 227 N.W.2d 736 (Mich. 1975). “8 "No person exercising any authority, supervision or direction *628 over any public employee shall have the power to authorize, approve or consent to a strike by public employees, and such person shall not authorize, approve or consent to such strike, nor shall any such person…”
Male v. Grand Rapids Educ. Ass'n, 295 N.W.2d 918 (Mich. Ct. App. 1980). “MCL 423.203; MSA 17.455(3), provides in part: "No person exercising any authority, supervision or direction over any public employee shall have the power to authorize, approve or consent to a strike by public employees, and such person shall not authorize, approve or consent to…”
Redford Twp. v. Redford Twp. Civil Serv. Comm'n, 356 N.W.2d 270 (Mich. Ct. App. 1984). “While it may be possible to find in PERA a public policy that municipal employers not be prevented, by contractual restrictions, from discharging striking employees, see MCL 423.203; MSA 17.455(3), this case does not involve such a policy because Redford has not been prevented…”
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