Upcoming events sponsored by CIRA

CIRA’s 2024 conference

The annual CIRA conference is happening from May 24 to 26, 2024, at the University of Sherbrooke (Longueuil campus) in the greater Montreal region.

To register, please, follow this link. You can download the final conference program here and some information on logistics here. The call for proposals is now closed, but it can be found on this site.

Publication of a book co-edited by our community representative, John Peters, and Don Wells

You can pre-order “Canadian Labour Policy and Politics” from the University of British Columbia Press.

2023 Awards recipients

Every year, CIRA acknowledges the work of central actors and future actors in the world of work by handing out awards.

2023 recipients were:

Gérard Dion award

• Leah Vosko, York University

HD Woods conference

• Dionne Pohler, University of Saskatchewan
  "Building (Balanced) Bridges: Industrial Relations Scholarship in a Time of Polarization”

Allen Ponak award

Freedom of association award

• Rosalie Abella

The joint winners of the 2023 Canadian Freedom of Association Award as the following persons and organizations who were instrumental in Canada’s 2017 ratification of ILO Convention C98: The Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 [Committee Gregor Murray, Dionne Pohler, Gilles Trudeau].

CIRA’s positions

During the last years, CIRA took positions on important issues in the world of work.