2008 Annual Conference

TORONTO, ONTARIO, MAY 22-25, 2008

BABEL OR THE PROMISED LAND? LABOUR LAW, UNIONS, AND THE MODERN URBAN LANDSCAPE


Agenda

Welcome and Opening Comments:

Michael Cohen, President CALL/ACAMS, Melançon, Marceau, Grenier et Sciortino

Melissa Kronick, Caley Wray / David Wright, Ryder Wright Blair & Holmes - Toronto Organizing Committee

Susan Philpott, Koskie Minsky - Overview of Conference Agenda

Toronto Mayor David Miller

Toronto The Good

Plenary One: Organizing and Servicing in a Multicultural Workplace

Public info sheet: A Living Wage Campaign

Moderator:
Craig Flood, Koskie Minsky

Speakers:
Howard Law, Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild, Toronto, Ontario

Tom Hesse, United Food and Commercial Workers, Edmonton, Alberta

Susan Fisher, Hospital Employees Union, Vancouver, British Columbia

Plenary Two: Crumbling Cities: Public Private Partnerships

Moderator:
Murray Gold, Koskie Minsky

Speakers:
Hugh McKenzie
Crumbling Cities: The P3 Disadvantage

Roberto Fortin, CUPE/SCFP Quebec
Public Private Partnerships in Québec

Key Note Speech: Road to Health: The Final Report on School Safety

Julian Falconer, Falconer Charney

THE ROAD TO HEALTH: A FINAL REPORT ON SCHOOL SAFETY

Responses by Trade Unions and Others to Report of the School Community Advisory Panel

Plenary Three: International Panel: New Union Initiatives in the Hemisphere

Moderator:
Susan Philpott, Koskie Minsky

Speakers:
Jim Stanford, Economist, Canadian Auto Workers

Mark Brooks, Service Employees International Union, Nashville, Tennessee

Horacio Meguira, Chief Counsel/Executive director of legal services, Central de Trabajadores de Argentina

The Protection of Right to Organize
Freedom of Association: ILO Geneva

Workshop One: What is the future of labour law practice? Are there alternatives?

Moderator:
Ken Stuebing, Caley Wray

Speakers:
Blaine Donais, Society of Energy Professionals

David Doorey, York University

Documents:
Wanted: A new Trade Unionism for Europe
The Road to Union Renewal
Union Democracy: Processes, Difficulties and Prospects
Towards a Social Regulation of the Global Firm?
Service economies: high road or low road?
Innovations for union renewal
Towards Citizenship at Work?
Labour Law, Legal Pluralism and State Sovereignty

Workshop Two: Managing Union liability issues in the wake of Royal Oak Mines: the In House Perspective

Moderator:
Roman Stoykewych, OPSEU

Speakers:
Lewis Gottheil, Canadian Auto Workers

Paula Turtle, United Steelworkers of America

François Lamoureux Coordonnateur, affaires juridiques, CSN

Documents:
Fullowka v. Royal Oak Ventures Inc.
Limo Jet Gold Express Ltd.
Mainland Sawmills Ltd. v. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, Local 1-3567
Matusiak v. British Columbia and Yukon Territory Building and Construction Trades Council

Reel One CALL/ACAMS Mini Film Fest: Wal-Mart Nation

Introduction:
Andrew Munger, Producer, Writer and Director

Friday Night Frivols: Luckyfool

(with Jim Robbins, Cavalluzzo Hayes McIntyre Cornish)

Plenary Four: Where to From Here? BC Health Services: A Year Later

Moderator:
Annick Desjardins CUPE/SCFP

Paul Cavalluzzo, Cavalluzzo Hayes McIntyre Cornish
UFCW factum
UFCW Appeal factum

Pierre Grenier, Melançon, Marceau, Grenier et Sciortino
Bill 30 -An Act respecting bargaining units in the social affairs sector

Sibel Atogul, Melançon, Marceau, Grenier et Sciortino

Micah Field, Blakely & Dushenski
THE GORDIAN KNOT OF STRIKE POSITION

Plenary Five: 10 Minute Labour Lawyer

Moderators: Heather JensenGerrand Rath JohnsonKarin LinnebachMyers Weinberg

  1. Discrimination in Employment - Benefits for the Older Worker: The Implications of the End of Mandatory Retirement
    Ritu Khular, Chivers Carpenter
  2. Update on Drug Testing
    Joel Schwartz, Pink, Breen, Larkin
    Plumbers Local 488 v. Bantrel Constructors
    Greater Toronto Airports Authority v. PSAC Local 0004 | Summary
    Alberta (Human Rights and Citizenship Commission) v. Kellogg Brown & Root
    CEP Local 143 v. Goodyear Canada Inc.
    Weyerhaeuser v. Ontario (Human Rights Commission)
  3. When can a Labour Board hold a hearing in its pajamas?
    Ian Fellows, Green Chercover
    Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 v. Ontario Labour Relations Board
    TTC v. ATU Local 113 | 2
  4. Unfair Labour Practices during Certifications: You can’t always get what you want - but do you get what you need?
    Michael McCreary, Watson, Jacobs, McCreary
    Presentation Paper
  5. Interference with Tribunals: An Occupational Hazard?
    Bijon Roy, Raven, Cameron, Ballantyne & Yazbeck
  6. Show Me the Money: Cash Transfers and Successor/Related Employers
    Pat Nugent, Chivers Carpenter
    International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Local Lodge No. 99 v. Finning International Inc

CALL/ACAMS Business Meeting

Approval of Agenda

Approval of 2007 Annual Meeting Minutes

President’s Report

Treasurer’s Report

Welcome to visiting Student
Adam Beatty, University of Toronto Law School

Update on CALL Business

Aech Relief
Letter for CALL Members
Improving livelihood security with local trainers and community
Improving employment opportunities for trainee nurses
Photos

Changing of the Guard at the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board- 
Drew Plaxton, Plaxton & Company
News Release
Official response

International Committee Activities
NAACL
Columbia FTA Submission
Argentina Report

Constitutional Amendments
Constitution | Proposed Amendments

Elections

Next Conference Location

Plenary Six: In Harm’s Way - Violence on the Front Line

Moderator:
Marjorie Brown, Victory Square

Speakers:
Liz McIntyre, Cavalluzzo Hayes McIntyre Cornish

Marg Dhillon, British Columbia Nurses Union

 

Pierre Malette, President, Union of Canadian Correctional Officers- le Syndicat des Agents Correctionnels du Canada- CSN

 

Materials:
Enough is enough: Recognizing and responding to violence
in the health care sector

“In Harm’s Way”

Workshop Three: Dealing with Management's Dirty Little Tricks

Moderator:
Garth Smorang, Myers Weinberg

Workshop Four: Using the Charter/Constitution for Litigation

Moderator:
Gavin Leeb

Speakers:
Bettyann Cox, Silversides & Cox

Andrew Lokan, Paliare Roland

 

Materials:
PEI and Telus Cases
BC Health Services SCC case
Labour Charter cases
Notice of Constitutional Question

Reel Two: CALL/ACAMS Mini Film Festival- 24 Days In Brooks

Introduction:
Tom Hesse, United Food and Commercial Workers

Dana Inkster information

Saturday Night Shake: Tokyo Giants (with Rick Blair, Ryder, Wright, Blair, Holmes)

Plenary Seven: Supreme and Appellate Court Update – What’s New and What to Expect

Moderators:
Ethan Poskanzer and Steven Barrett, Sack Goldblatt, Mitchell

Speakers:
Pam Chapman, Arbitrator/Mediator, Dunsmuir and the Standard of Review

Anne Gregory, Senior Officer, CUPE
Evans v Teamsters Local Union No. 31 | Supreme Court of Canada |Trial

 

International Affairs Committee Meeting

Labour Law and the Venezuelan Constitution
(Guest speaker: Ramon Fabrega)

International Affairs Committee Business Meeting

Mark Brooks, Union Initiatives in the Hemisphere

MODERATORS, PRESENTERS AND SPEAKERS:

Master list of bios

Atogul, Sibel: Where to From Here? BC Health Services: A Year Later
Barrett, Steven: Supreme and Appellate Court Update What’s New and What to Expect
Blair, Rick: Tokyo Giants
Brooks, Mark International Panel: New Union Initiatives in the Hemisphere
Cavalluzzo, Paul: Where to From Here? BC Health Services:
 A Year Later
Chapman, Pam: Supreme and Appellate Court Update What’s New and What to Expect
Cox, Bettyann; Using the Charter/Constitution for Litigation
Desjardins, Annick: Where to From Here? BC Health Services:
 A Year Later
Dhillon, Marg: In Harm’s Way - Violence on the Front Line
Donais, Blaine: What is the future of labour law practice? Are there alternatives?
Doorey, David: What is the future of labour law practice? Are there alternatives?
Falconer, Julian: Road to Health: The Final Report on School Safety
Fellows, Ian: 10 Minute Lawyer: When can a Labour Board hold a hearing in its pajamas?
Field, Micah: Where to From Here? BC Health Services: A Year Later
Fisher, Susan: Organizing and Servicing in a Multicultural Workplace,
Fortin, Roberto Crumbling Cities: Public Private Partnerships
Gold, Murray: Crumbling Cities: Public Private Partnerships
Gottheil, Lewis: Managing Union liability issues in the wake of Royal Oak Mines: In-House Perspective
Grenier, Pierre: Where to From Here? BC Health Services: A Year Later
Gregory, Anne: Supreme and Appellate Court Update What’s New and What to Expect
Hesse, Tom: Organizing and Servicing in a Multicultural Workplace, 24 Days in Brooks
Inkster, Dana: 24 Days in Brooks
Jensen, Heather: Ten Minute Lawyer
Khular, Ritu: 10 Minute Lawyer: End of Mandatory Retirement
Lamoureux, Francois: Managing Union liability issues in the wake of Royal Oak Mines: In-House Perspective
Law, Howard: Organizing and Servicing in a Multicultural Workplace,
Leeb, Gavin: Using the Charter/Constitution for Litigation
Linnebach, Karin: 10 Minute Lawyer
Lokan, Andrew: Using the Charter/Constitution for Litigation
MacKenzie, Hugh: Crumbling Cities: Public Private Partnerships
Malette Pierre: In Harm’s Way - Violence on the Front Line
McCreary, Michael: 10 Minute Lawyer: Unfair Labour Practices During Certifications
McIntyre, Liz: In Harm’s Way - Violence on the Front Line
Meguira, Horacio: International Panel: New Union Initiatives in the Hemisphere
Miller, David Mayor: Greetings
Munger, Andrew: Wal-Mart Nation
Nugent, Pat: 10 Minute Lawyer: Show Me the Money: Cash Transfers & Successor/Related Employers
Philpott, Susan: International Panel: New Union Initiatives in the Hemisphere
Plaxton, Drew: Changing of the Guard at the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board
Poskanzer, Ethan: Supreme and Appellate Court Update What’s New and What to Expect
Roy, Bijon: 10 Minute Lawyer: Interference with Tribunals: An Occupational Hazard?
Schwartz, Joel: 10 Minute Lawyer: Update on Drug Testing
Smorang, Garth: Dealing with Management's Dirty Little Tricks
Stanford, Jim: International Panel: New Union Initiatives in the Hemisphere
Stoykewych, Roman: Managing Union liability issues in the wake of Royal Oak Mines: In-House Perspective
Stuebing, Ken: What is the future of labour law practice? Are there alternatives?
Turtle, Paula: Managing Union liability issues in the wake of Royal Oak Mines: In-House Perspective
Williams, David: Organizing and Servicing in a Multicultural Workplace

CALL/ACAMS 2008 Conference Participants:

List of participants

CALL/ACAMS Constitution (2008)

Constitution