For employers managing a unionized workplace, the risk of volatile workplace disputes with incumbent unions is a daily reality. When our clients face a possible strike or lockout, our labour lawyers provide immediate advice and training for management on minimizing business disruption, strike preparedness, employee discipline, operations, and replacement workers, security, picket line surveillance, police liaising, union negotiations, injunctions, and other legal action.
The regulation of activity that arises during a labour dispute is largely performed before the courts and Ontario Labour Relations Board in Ontario. When unlawful activity arises in the context of strikes/lockouts, our labour lawyers appear before the courts to seek injunctions, or before the Ontario Labour Relations Board to seek cease and desist orders.