Public Sector: Innovative Approaches to Public Sector Dispute Resolution – I. Taking a Walki on the Wild Side: Over a Decade of Expedited Arbitration in the Ontario Electricity Industry

Mr. Dassios, General Counsel for the Power Workers’ Union, describes how the Ontario electricity industry’s expedited arbitration process substantially reduced a backlog of about 3000 grievances for a bargaining unit of 14,000 workers. He describes the principles and the objectives of the program.