Resource List

Here's a list of resources for Black workers in Ontario. Click here to learn how to unionize.


Health + Wellness
Workers' Rights
Human Rights + Discrimination
Injury, Health + Safety
Migrant Workers
HOW IT WORKS

Steps to Unionization

Step 1:
JOIN THE UNION 
COMMITTEE
STEP 2:
SIgn a
UNION cARD
STEP 3:
CERTIFICATION
STEP 4:
SECRET BALLOT
VOTE
STEP 5:
ORLB
CERTIFICATE

Union committees are co-workers who support each other, share information, strategy and ideas on what kind of union they want to build.

There is no union without a union committee.

The majority of workers must sign union cards. Union cards are confidential.

Your employer will never see who signs a card. Union membership cards are presented to the Labour Board in order to get a union vote.

The union files for certification with the Ontario Labour Relations Board.

This application process is made in order to ask the Labour Board to conduct a vote.

5 days after filing for certification, the Ontario Labour Relations Board will hold a secret ballot vote.

50% + 1 of voters, must vote YES for a union to be formed.

The Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) will issue a certificate allowing researchers to bargain their working conditions and start to form a union.