A members’ knowledge event will be held online on Monday, December 18th from 6pm to 8pm, Eastern Standard Time. All members are invited to attend.
As you are aware, in 2022 a members’ resolution was passed on Strengthening and Expanding the CAPE Defence Fund. As part of this resolution, CAPE is developing educational materials on collective bargaining for use in member education and engagement.
At the event, members will learn more about the materials developed, hear about the results of the member survey on the Defence Fund and collective bargaining, and hear a panel discussion on leverage in public sector unions, followed by a question and answer period.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://ca01web.zoom.us/j/64642054516
CART captioning for anyone wishing to use the service:
https://2020archive.1capapp.com/event/cape
Agenda – Members’ Knowledge Event – Collective Bargaining Panel and Toolkit
December 18, 2023, 6pm -8pm EST
6pm – Welcome and event overview
6:10pm – Member support and engagement
6:20pm – Review of collective bargaining and Defence Fund survey results
6:40pm – Review of collective bargaining toolkit
6:50pm – Collective bargaining videos
7:00pm – Moderated discussion: Union leverage in a public employer contract (Richard Beaulé and Mélanie Laroche)
7:25pm – Question and Answer session with participants and the guest speakers
7:55pm – Concluding Remarks
Our Guest Speakers
Richard Beaulé
After two years of labour law practice, Richard began a career in labour relations in Canada. He was employed, mainly as the Coordinator and Spokesperson for the National Negotiation, for nurses in Quebec, from 1996 to 2006. In 2015, he moved to Ottawa and became Director of the National Labour Relations Service (Negotiation, Classification, Pension and Benefits) for the Professionnal Institute of Public Service of Canada.
Richard’s interest in subjects involving societal issues in connection with the law such as integration of diversity in the workplace and the condition of temporary migrant workers led him in the Netherland where he recently completed a Master’s degree in Law & Society: Governance and Global Development (M.Sc.) at Leiden University.
Mélanie Laroche
Mélanie Laroche is a Full Professor in the School of Industrial Relations at Université de Montréal. Broadly speaking, she is interested in collective action, whether by employers or unions, and in collective bargaining. More specifically, her research aims to better understand the role of various actors in the modernization of labor institutions.
Several of her studies focus on organized employers and their labor relations and public policy strategies. The question of succession and modernization of union action is also at the heart of her work. Professor Laroche also addresses various themes linked to these fields of research: anti-union strategies, disparities of treatment and inequalities, the duration of collective agreements, transformations in collective bargaining and the key skills of the negotiating profession. She is also involved in a project dealing with professional equality between men and women.
