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 Academic Director of Osgoode Hall Law School’s executive LLM Program in Labour and Employment Law and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program. Professor Doorey is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B., Ph.D), London School of Economics (LLM Labour Law), and the University of Toronto (B.A., M.I.R.).
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