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What Might the Doug Ford Conservatives Do to Labour Law?
June 12 2018 Is labour law armageddon on the horizon in Ontario? The big win by Doug Ford and the Conservatives last week has raised concerns that Ontario’s labour law…
An “Epic” American Labor Law Case Through a Canadian Lens
May 29 2018 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week in an important decision that mandatory arbitration clauses inserted by employers into employment contracts block employees from joining a class…
Liberals Introduce Back to Work Legislation to End York Strike
May 7 2018 The Liberals finally delivered York University what it wanted all along: interest arbitration. It took two months from the commencement of a bitter strike. Here is a…
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…
Announcing the Inaugural Law of Work Best Paper Award Winner
May 2 2018 Professor Alison Braley-Rattai of Brock University’s Department of Labour Studies is the recipient of the inaugural Law of Work Best Paper Award for her paper entitled “Canada’s…
Fantastic Job Opportunity to do Research Work in Glasgow on Precarious Work and Law
April 13 2018 Professor Ruth Dukes of Glasgow School of Law, my good friend and international labour law star (and co-teacher with me in Osgoode’s LLM upcoming program in labour…
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…
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