Lansing, MI (June 5, 2014) – A Michigan civil servant has filed a motion to file a brief at the state’s Supreme Court defending Michigan’s recently-enacted public-sector Right to Work law and arguing that it applies to the state’s civil servants.

Michigan Department of Natural Resources Inventory and Planning Specialist Thomas Haxby, of Kingsley, filed the motion with free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys.

The case, brought by several union hierarchies, is a challenge to Michigan’s Right to Work law and whether is applies to the state’s civil servants.

After Michigan’s Right to Work law went into effect, Haxby resigned his membership in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 517M, one of the unions that filed the suit, and refrained from union dues payments. Haxby intends to file a brief that argues that Michigan’s recently-enacted public-sector Right to Work law applies to the state’s civil servants, just as the state’s Political Freedom Act does, and that the Civil Service Commission lacks the authority to force civil servants into forced union dues payments.

“After suffering electoral and legislative defeats, Michigan union bosses are trying to use the courts to do their bidding,” said Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation. “Michigan’s civil servants have the same rights all Michigan workers enjoy.”

Foundation staff attorneys are currently representing 17 employees defending or enforcing Michigan’s Right to Work laws in cases before the Michigan Employee Relations Commission and federal court.

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. The Foundation, which can be contacted toll-free at 1-800-336-3600, assists thousands of employees in about 200 cases nationwide per year.