The Star is reporting that the employer-ordered ratification vote will be held by the Ontario Labour Relations Board on Monday or Tuesday of next week. If the striking employees vote to accept the employer’s offer, then classes will resume as soon thereafter as the University can organize an orderly back to work process. If the employees vote against the employer’s offer, then the strike continues until the parties bargain a deal or the government decides to step in an order the workers back to work with ad hoc legislation. I don’t think Ontario has ever ordered university employees back to work (does anyone know otherwise?), although it has ordered striking college instructors back.
David Doorey
Professor Doorey is an Associate Professor of Work Law and Industrial Relations at York University. He is the Director of the School of HRM at York and Director of Osgoode Hall Law School’s executive LLM Program in Labour and Employment Law and on the Advisory Board of the Osgoode Certificate program in Labour Law. He is a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program and a member of the International Advisory Committee on Harvard University’s Clean Slate Project, which is re-imaging labor law for the 21st century
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