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 Jensen; Gerrand Rath Johnson, Karin Linnebach, Myers Weinberg
- Discrimination in Employment - Benefits for the Older Worker: The Implications of the End of Mandatory Retirement
Ritu Khular, Chivers Carpenter - 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) - 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 - 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 - Interference with Tribunals: An Occupational Hazard?
Bijon Roy, Raven, Cameron, Ballantyne & Yazbeck - 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
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
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:
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:
CALL/ACAMS Constitution (2008)