Advised an automobile manufacturer in successive union organizing campaigns and successfully resisting union certification.
Work
We offer legal services that include advice, courtroom and tribunal advocacy, negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, policy development and strategic planning. Below are examples of work we have performed for our clients.
Successfully defended a food manufacturer in the termination of an employee accused of sexual harassment.
Successfully represented a university in judicial review proceedings to protect the integrating of information-sharing policies in a unionized academic setting.
Provided strategic advice to a major drink manufacturer in relation to multi-location bargaining and successfully managing multi-location labour disputes.
Advised a major spirit producer in bargaining resulting in a significant rewrite of an established collective agreement.
Represented a broadcaster in a major non-construction jurisdictional dispute leading to an amendment by the Ontario Labour Relations Board of a collective agreement scope clause.
Had a grievance dismissed which alleged that a hospital had failed to provide a union and its members with benefit improvements as a result of the hospital receiving Employment Insurance Rebates.
Successfully argued on behalf of a university that an application for judicial review of an arbitrator’s decision, which had upheld a termination for cause, should be dismissed for delay.
Acted for a transit service provider in a policy grievance relating to the proper interpretation of a recognition clause in a collective agreement.
Successfully argued on behalf of a police services board that an arbitrator had no jurisdiction to hear a grievance relating to promotion.