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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…
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…
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…
Random Drug & Alcohol Testing Struck Down at Teck Coal
February 1 2018 This week, a senior arbitrator in British Columbia ruled that Tech Coal’s random drug and alcohol testing policy violated the collective agreement with the United Steelworkers…
Attempt to Use Fake Unions to Block Real Union Fails in Alberta
A central premise underlying Canadian collective bargaining law is that employees should have the right to select both (1) whether to join a union and opt for collective over individual…
How Bill 148 Creates the Means and the Incentive for Building Services Employees to Join Unions
I have written a couple of explanatory posts (see here and here) on Ontario’s new Bill 148 legislation, which amends parts of the Employment Standards Act, Labour Relations Act, and Occupational Health…
College Instructors Overwhelmingly Reject Employers’ “Final Offer”. Now What?
November 16 2017 The college instructors represented by OPSEU have soundly rejected the College Employer Council’s proposed collective agreement put to them in a forced “final offer vote”. The 5…
Major Graduate Student Symposium on Labour Issues at York
The Global Labour Research Centre (of which I am a faculty associate) at York University is hosting its annual Graduate Student Symposium on October 26-27. Looks like a great line…
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