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Special Investigator Kaplan Recommends Interest Arbitration, Criticizes CUPE’s Bargaining Strategy
The special Industrial Inquiry Commissioner, William Kaplan, has issued his final report. For reasons that are not clear to me, the government does not appear to release these Industrial Inquiry…
Province Turns to Little Used Industrial Inquiry Commission at York University
April 13 2018 The long road to a resolution of the six week long bitter strike of contract faculty at York University took a new twist today as the province…
CUPE3903 Soundly Rejects York’s “Final Offer” in Forced Vote. Now What?
April 9 2018 Striking CUPE3903 members at York University have soundly rejected York University’s proposed collective agreement. The Vote Results The results of the vote, which was ordered after York…
Real Pleadings: York and CUPE File Competing Unfair Labour Practice Complaints
March 28 2018 Instructors represented by CUPE 3093 have been on strike since March 5. This past week there were a couple of notable legal developments which have escalated the…
On French Stereotypes and the Case of the “Aggressive” Milestones Waiter
March 28 2018 A curious little case out of British Columbia recently made international news. I first read about the case in The Guardian from England, and later saw a…
How Will the York Strike End?
UPDATE: March 27 2018 On March 27, York University exercised its legal right to request that the government conduct a “final offer vote” (see below) on its last offer…
Someone (a York Employee) Purchased “CUPE3903.com” to Redirect Traffic to York University’s Strike Page. Did They Break Any Laws?
UPDATE 2 (APRIL 4 2018): Time for another brief update on this post, which began about a month ago when I discussed what was then a hypothetical scenario: What if…
Impaired Driving Not Cause for Dismissal of Assistant Fire Chief
February 22 2018 An Assistant Fire Chief driving is pulled over for suspected impaired driving whereupon he fails two breathalyzer tests. He was driving the Fire Chief’s truck, which was…
Guest Blog: Professor Emeritus Roy Adams on Protecting the Right of College Teachers to Strike
February 13 2018 Professor Emeritus Roy Adams (McMaster) has been a dogged advocate of the movement to treat labour rights as human rights for many years. His work has…
Solving the Mystery of the Waitress Who Was “Reinstated” for “Not Smiling Enough”
A headline in the National Post today proclaims that a waitress fired for “not smiling enough” was reinstated “by court”. Reminds me of a case I worked on in the…
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