Building Union-Management Partnerships 2013

Keynote Speaker: Stacey Allerton, Vice-President, Human Resources, Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd.

Highlights:

• Hear 10 joint presentations, representing both union and management perspectives

• Best practices for interest-based and mutual-gains bargaining

• How to achieve collaboration in training redesign

• Creating a healthy & productive labour relations partnership

• Practical solutions for instilling cooperation and trust within a union-management relationship

• Exploring the changing face of the public sector’s relationship with unions

• Establishing an effective workplace violence prevention program

• Innovative practices for handling disputes outside the collective agreement

• Methods for fostering respect in the workplace

• Collaborating on discipline and termination issues to prevent cases from going to arbitration

• Collective bargaining strategies for achieving maximum fl exibility and cost containment

• Impact a unionized environment has on accommodation and the role that the union plays

Participating Organizations:

• AEG Dispute Resolutions Inc.

• Alleyne Inc.

• Canadian Federation of Independent Business

• Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 905

• Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 5001

• CAW-Canada

• Corrections Ontario

• Financial Fitness Windsor

• Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd.

• Humber River Regional Hospital

• Jazz Aviation

• Knowledge C2C

• Loblaw Companies Ltd.

• Mediated Solutions

• Ministry of Government Services

• Newalta

• Ontario Nurses Association

• Ontario Provincial Police Association

• Ontario Public Service Employees Union

• Pesce & Associates

• Professional Writers Association of Canada

• Rouge Valley Health System

• Teamsters Local Union 938

• Town of Richmond H