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The campaign to win collective bargaining rights for Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) lawyers was a momentous challenge that the Society took on fiercely. For more than four years, LAO lawyers sustained a campaign for the right to unionize, shining a bright light on the discrimination that denied a largely female and disproportionately racialized workforce collective bargaining rights. A rally in support…
When the Society’s collective agreement with Ontario Hydro took effect on Jan. 1, 1993 – its first collective agreement since certifying as an official labour union in 1989 – it could finally rely on the Rand Formula for collecting and sustaining membership dues.
In the summer of 2005, 1,000 professionals from the Society’s Hydro One Local participated in the first strike in the Society’s history. Members united together against an employer determined to rewrite the collective agreement in the wake of neoliberal restructuring of the energy sector. Strikers stage an information picket at a Liberal Party event in Woodstock
When it was uncovered in the Spring of 2016 that then-Mayor John Tory and the Toronto City Council were contemplating the privatization of Toronto Hydro, the Society quickly sprang into action. A full-fledged public campaign opposing the privatization, backed by a diverse coalition of civil society organizations, challenged the city head-on. The Society, which represents engineers and information…
When Nortel Networks Corporation filed for bankruptcy in 2009 under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, the pensions of 20,000 Canadians were at risk. What resulted was a long and expensive legal battle that eventually ended in a payout to pensioners. But the more than $7 billion creditor payout approved by a Superior Court justice in 2017 was shared by government agencies, investment funds,…
“The planet is burning. We have to do something about it,” said Society President Michelle Johnston. She has two children – aged 25 and 27 – and she is concerned about the impact her generation has had on the world they’ll inherit. It’s one of the main reasons Johnston has led the charge in the Society’s campaign for nuclear energy expansion. Former Society President Michelle Johnston at COP 28…
Safety professionals at the Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) are crucial to eliminating potential dangers caused by electrical systems.
In January 2002, a three-year agreement between the Society and Hydro One was signed under arbitrator George Adams. Hydro One made it clear to the Society once this agreement was reached that the company would move to a strike-lockout arrangement for future agreements. They would no longer entertain mediation-arbitration pacts for dispute resolution. This caused alarm for many Society members, who…
Technological change in the workplace has always been a disruptive challenge for workers. The closure of Ontario’s coal generating stations was one such event in the Society’s history and showed how important a union is for workers successfully managing these challenging transitions.
On July 1, 1983, Ontario Hydro unilaterally terminated its Master Agreement with the Society.
