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