Objectives
The Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights (CFLR) is a national voice devoted to promoting labour rights as an important means to strengthening democracy, equality and economic justice here in Canada and internationally.
The key objectives the Foundation has established for itself are:
- Create greater public awareness and understanding of labour rights as a key critical component of human rights;
- Build effective political momentum and public support for progressive labour law reform;
- Promote fundamental labour standards in Canada that enhance union organizing including, but not limited to, the right of all workers to belong to a union and to engage in collective bargaining and strike action;
- Provide a critical voice against any future regressive labour law being contemplated or introduced by a government in Canada; and
- Monitor, provide advice and offer coordination on legal challenges to labour laws with a view to strategically moving labour rights ahead in Canada.
CFLR provides a forum for its members to promote and publish their independent research, policy papers and articles which are consistent with the objectives of the Foundation.
CLFR also promotes its work within the broader labour rights communities – unions and other labour organizations, labour relations programs within Canadian universities and colleges, labour law schools and legal firms and other progressive think tanks.
Board of Directors
Paul Cavalluzzo
Senior Partner
Cavalluzzo, Hayes, Shilton, McIntyre & Cornish LLP, Toronto
James Clancy
National President
National Union of Public and General Employees
Judy Fudge
Professor of Law
Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
Nathalie Des Rosiers
General Counsel
Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Steven Barrett
Senior Partner
Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP, Toronto
Johanne Drolet
President
Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers (CALL)
Paul Champ
Senior Partner
Champ and Associates, Ottawa
Veena Verma
Montreal-based lawyer specializing in migrant workers' rights
Matthew Gapmann
Advocat / Legal Counsel
Central des syndicats du Québec
Marjorie S. Brown
Partner
Victory Square Law Office, LLP, Vancouver
Wayne Hanley
National President
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Canada
Paul Taillefer
President
Canadian Teachers’ Federation
Secretariat staff to CFLB Board of Directors
Derek Fudge
National Director
National Union of Public and General Employees