McDonald v. Stroh Brewery Co.

Plaintiffs appeal as of right from judgments of no cause of action entered by the Wayne Circuit Court regarding their various claims against defendant for wrongful discharge and employment discrimination based upon age, sex, or national origin. We affirm.

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Defendant, a regional brewery, discharged eighty-seven of its approximately four hundred employees on November 16, 1981, allegedly because of economic pressures occasioned by increased marketing, production, and transportation costs and loss of market share to the two largest national breweries. The terminations followed a poor earnings…