How we help unions
We stand where you stand.
GoodWin represents workers and the unions that stand for them. Never employers — not on any file, not in any office down the hall. There's no risk of being conflicted out down the road, and our institutional knowledge stays entirely yours.
We take on the big work.
Counsel who knows your history, your internal politics, what has worked before, and what has not. That knowledge is not something we arrive with. It is something we build, deliberately, starting with the first file.
Time also builds something broader: an understanding of your sector. We have spent years alongside university unions — faculty associations, professional staff, administrative staff, and teaching assistants — and alongside K-12 teacher unions, firefighter unions, construction unions, and athlete player associations. That gives us working knowledge of the pressures specific to those workplaces: staffing, safety, compensation, social media. We know the issues that resurface round after round, and we can see the new ones coming.
A single case ends. A relationship does not have to — and that is the kind of counsel we want to be.
Certifications, collective bargaining, the disputes that shape a workplace for years to come. It's the only kind of work we do, and we go the distance on it.
That is what a long-term partner gives you: counsel that already understands your collective agreement, your workplace dynamics, and your membership, as well as the currents moving through your industry.
It is the value that compounds the longer we work together. When you’re ready to start, get in touch with the team at GoodWin Law.
We Work With Unions On:
certification and de-certification · collective bargaining · grievance arbitration · unfair labour practices · human rights proceedings · duty of fair representation
Let's build this for the long run.
