Find Collective Agreements

Collective Agreements...

• are legal contracts between a union and an employer
• typically set out the rates of pay, hours of work, vacations, benefits, grievance procedures, and other conditions of employment
• have a set expiry date (typically one to three years)

Collective Agreement Sources

• Negotech (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada)
  • Contains full-text copies of current and historical collective agreements in Canada.
  • Search by company, union, settlement number, industry, and other criteria.
  • Updated daily.
     
• Collective Agreements (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)
  • Contains current and archived collective agreements of groups in the federal public service in Canada.
  • Search for agreements by code, group, group abbreviation or union.

• Collective Bargaining Agreement Filing and Retrieval System (Alberta Employment and Immigration)
  • Contains selected collective bargaining agreements for organizations operating within Alberta, Canada.
  • Includes both current and previous agreements filed electronically with Alberta Employment and Immigration.
  • Search for agreements by employer, union, locality and date.
     
• Collective Agreements (Labour Relations Board British Columbia)
  • Contains current and historical collective agreements filed in British Columbia, Canada.
  • Browse agreements by employer.
      
• Collective Agreement Information Retrieval System (CAIRS) (Labour Relations Agency, Labrador and Newfoundland)
  • Contains collective agreements filed with the Labour Relations Agency in Labrador and Newfoundland, Canada.
  • Search for agreements by keyword(s), phrase(s) or by table of contents.
     
• Collective Agreements (Ontario Hospital Association)
  • Contains current and historical central and local collective agreements for hospitals in Ontario, Canada.
  • Search for agreements by union.
     
• Labor Contracts Database (Institute of Industrial Relations Library, University of California , Berkeley)
  • "A one-stop public on-line clearinghouse for cataloged and digitized complete union contract text."
  • Search U.S. labour contracts by state, union name or occupation.
     

When the agreement is not available ...

• Contact the union or employer directly. Try the following sources:

  • Directory of Labour Organizations in Canada
  • Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations
  • LaborNet 2000 Directory of Union Organizations on the Internet
  • Trade Unions of the World

 Last Reviewed: April 24, 2012