Wayne County Civil Service Commission v. Board of Supervisors

Two admittedly conflicting statutes compete in litigious depth for jurisdiction over the process of collective bargaining by Wayne County employees with their employer (or employers). As two courts already have come to know in painful and dissentient succession (see Wayne County Civil Service Commission v. Wayne County Board of Supervisors [1970], 22 Mich App 287), the competition presents that most difficult of all appellate problems; the ascertainment of legislative intent when there is no evidentiary or other reasonably authoritative guide to pertinent meaning or purpose of the…