Our Employment & Labour Group senior lawyer Mike Weiler has spent 40 years advising, educating and representing employers and businesses of all sizes on union matters from initial union certifications to collective bargaining.  Our Team is ready to assist businesses in navigating these tricky waters and helping them gain more equal footing with the sophisticated and financially resourceful unions, whose sole focus is to organize and represent employees. Our specialized Team at KSW provides cost effective and practical advice and representation in all areas of labour and union matters including:

• Maintaining a non-union workplace through positive and team building initiatives and strategies
• Advising on union organizing drives including defenses to such applications, unfair labour practices  and employer free speech
• Representing employers in LRB certification and decertification hearings
• Collective bargaining including acting as spokesperson
• Advising on labour dispute strategies including mediation and  how to operate during a strike or lockout
• Advising employers on collective agreement administration
• Representing employers in arbitration hearings under collective agreements