Similar to our blog post on "What does that mean?" comes this discussion of doing things "the usual way".
What does this mean? Well it’s when contracts actually state things will be done in “The usual way”. Sounds far-fetched but I am NOT making this up....

During our Fresh Look Analysis, we often come across clauses where we have to ask "What does that mean?" Quite simply, we don't understand what the wording is trying to say.
Unseen to our clients, one of our many union bargaining strategies involves reviewing union contracts with more than one person on the team which gives us a variety of perspectives. When both union and management see the same collective agreement day...

Well it happened. A union has organized your employees and is now certified to represent them when you are negotiating with your union. How do you go about negotiating the first collective agreement and where do you start with the whole union contract...

People often comment that negotiating collective bargaining agreements is quite a niche skill (thank you very much!) and ask how I got started doing this. Well you might be surprised to hear that this all began in theatre.
My formal post-secondary education was at Ryerson University in Theatre Production. Basically, I was one of those people behind the scenes that in a perfect world, you wouldn't know was there. Generally when people are aware that the backstage people...