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ARTICLE · 08 OCTOBER 2018

Union Certifications: What Employers Need To Know About Union Organizing

Few events can more dramatically impact the way your business operates than the certification of a union.

CanadaEmployment and HR

Few events can more dramatically impact the way your business operates than the certification of a union. In its simplest terms, a union certification represents the end of an employer's 1:1 relationship with its employees, and the start of a collective bargaining relationship in which the union is the voice of employees.

Understanding the way that unions acquire bargaining rights and become certified under the Ontario Labour Relations Act is the first step to effectively managing and responding to organizing efforts in the workplace.

Union Organizing Drives

The goal of an organizing drive is for the union to be certified by the Ontario Labour Relations Board ("the Board") as the exclusive bargaining agent for all employees in a specified bargaining unit. In many cases, that bargaining unit is defined as all employees of a particular employer, often within a particular municipality, and will typically identify a number of exclusions. Most exclusions are

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