Labour Relations Officer - Leadership Development and Member Support (Regio

at  ONTARIO NURSES ASSOCIATION

DATE: OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) is Canada’s largest nurses’ union. We are powered by our members — 68,000 nurses and health-care professionals, and 18,000 nursing student affiliates — who provide care in hospitals, long-term care, public health, the community, clinics and industry.
Our mission is to defend the rights of and advocate for nurses and health-care professionals who care for the health of Ontarians. We empower members and fight against unfair and unsafe treatment, negotiate and enforce our contracts, offer benefits and insurance, provide tailored education and development opportunities and much more. We confront governments, administrations and other policymakers head on to fight for high-quality public health care.
ONA is seeking to hire a Labour Relations Officers-Leadership Development and Member Support to provide support and assistance to Bargaining Units in Region 4 that do not have Bargaining Unit Presidents. This position reports to the Regional Manager, Contract Administration- Region 4 and will be accountable for guiding and supporting the needs of our members, while ensuring the individual and collective rights of members are achieved and maintained.

• Negotiates, leads contract administration, supports Bargaining Units and Locals in administration or without leadership and for those units that are in Member Policy 23.3 Assistance to Bargaining Units without a Bargaining Unit President and Member Policy 23.1 Invoked Administration.
• Works with locals and members to develop and support a leadership structure/team.
• Coaching/ Mentoring of new leaders/executives.
• Prioritizing building stronger bargaining units and equipping bargaining unit representatives to better support the membership.
• Provides assistance when there are issues of capacity/workload or where the Bargaining Units have complex labour relations issues in a health-care environment.
• Consult with the Litigation and Negotiations Teams in preparation and presentation for arbitrations.
• In partnership with our Professional Practice Specialist, ensure members receive timely guidance concerning professional practice issues.
• Collaborate with Regional Vice-President in recruitment of a member interested in the position of Bargaining Unit President and other executive positions
• Collaborate with the BOD for those units/locals in Administrative Oversight Member Policy 23.1 Invoked Administration.