Catholic schools in Michigan may reject unions.A state appeals court has overturned an attempt by faculty at a Roman Catholic school in Michigan to join the state's largest teachers' union. Instructors at Brother Rice High School in suburban Detroit sought to join the Michigan Education Association, and last year, the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC See Maximum expected return criterion. Merc See Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). ) ordered school officials to allow them to do so. But school officials, represented by the ultra-conservative Thomas More Law Center The Thomas More Law Center is a conservative Christian, not-for-profit law center based in Ann Arbor, Michigan and active throughout the United States. Its stated goals are defending the religious freedom of Christians [1], restoring "time honored values" and protecting , challenged MERC's ruling as a violation of the private school's religious liberty rights. On August 16, a three-judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals unanimously ruled in Michigan Education Association v. Christian Brothers Christian Brothers: see John Baptist de la Salle, Saint. Institute of Michigan that "nothing in the [Labor Mediation Act] expressly grants the MERC jurisdiction over labor issues that arise in parochial schools parochial school (pərō`kēəl), school supported by a religious body. In the United States such schools are maintained by a number of religious groups, including Lutherans, Seventh-day Adventists, Orthodox Jews, Muslims, and ." Although the court did not address the religious school's religious liberty claim, it cited the U.S. Supreme Court's 1979 decision in NLRB v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago There are many religious leaders with the title Bishop of Chicago based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Listed below are their dioceses and eparchies.
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