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GOOLSBY v. CITY OF DETROIT

Docket No. 66657, (Calendar No. 1).

419 Mich. 651 (1984)

358 N.W.2d 856

GOOLSBY v. CITY OF DETROIT

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 10, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glotta, Adelman, Dinges, Davis & Riley, P.C. (by Robert J. Dinges and Chui Karega), and Herman Anderson for the plaintiffs.

Donald Pailen, Corporation Counsel, and Frank W. Jackson and Terri L. Hayles, Assistants Corporation Counsel, for defendant City of Detroit.

M. Elizabeth Bunn and David J. Houston for defendant union.

Amicus Curiae:

Miller, Cohen, Martens & Sugerman, P.C. (by Bruce A. Miller, Renate Klass, and Mark H. Cousens), for Michigan State AFL-CIO.

CAVANAGH, J.

In this case, we are asked to determine whether a union's unexplained failure to process a member's grievance constitutes a breach of the union's duty of fair representation.1

I

Plaintiffs belonged to a group of sanitation laborers, known as white wingers, within the Environmental Protection and Maintenance Department (EPMD) of defendant City of Detroit. They wore...

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