Upcoming events sponsored by CIRA

CIRA’s 2025 conference

The 62nd Annual CIRA Conference is taking place from June 3-6, 2025 at the Ted Roger’s School of Management, Centre for Labour Management Relations, at Toronto Metropolitan University. We welcome submissions from students, postdoctoral fellows, academics, and practitioners on a wide range of themes and topics.

English Call for Proposals PDF
Link to the Google Form to submit a proposal

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.