Dans une décision rendue aux petites heures du matin vendredi dernier, le président de la Commission des relations de travail de l’Ontario (« CRTO »), Bernard Fishbein, a tranché que les manifestations politiques que planifiait la Fédération des enseignantes et des enseignants de l’élémentaire de l’Ontario (« FEEO ») étaient illicites. Le président de la…
The challenge raised by the Ontario teachers’ unions over the Ontario Government’s Bill 115, the “Putting Students First Act”, is headed to the Courts. On The Agenda with Steve Paikin, Steve Paikin sat down with me and Fay Faraday to debate the key issues on legal arguments to be advanced and considered by the Court. Fay…
Today the NDP MPP from Essex, Taras Natyshak, tabled an amendment to the Labour Relations Act that would allow unions (and employers) to apply for interest arbitration in a long lockout (or strike) where conciliation or mediation has failed. The Board would be empowered to order interest arbitration for all outstanding issues if it determines…
The Canada Industrial Relations Board (“CIRB”) recently held that an employer’s unilateral changes to terms and conditions of employment after the end of the statutory freeze period did not constitute an unlawful lockout or a failure to bargain in good faith. In Canadian Union of Postal Workers v. Canada Post Corporation, 2012 CIRB 627, Canada…
On November 4, 2011, a Private Member’s bill that would have forced unions to publicly disclose more financial information was killed by House of Common Speaker Andrew Scheer on a procedural point of order. The Speaker ruled that Bill C-317 was, in effect, a tax measure because it had the potential to increase taxes on…