Below is an alphabetical listing of all accreditations granted since 1971 by the Ontario Labour Relations Board to employers' organizations in the construction industry as authorized by section 134 of the Labour Relations Act, 1995 or predecessor legislation. The system of accreditation was established by The Labour Relations Amendment Act, 1970 (No. 2), S.O. 1970, c.85, in force February 15, 1971. For OLRB Accreditation Certificates please contact the library owtl@wsiat.ca for copies.
Some Key Notes:
- Decisions - When available, we provide a link to the full-text of the decision. When an electronic copy of the decision is not available / accessible we'll provide you with an OLRB Reports and / or Quicklaw cite. Note that reported versions are often abridged and, if so, are marked as such. Unabridged versions of these decisions and decisions marked "unreported" will be available only from the Library, to obtain access to these please contact us.
- Dates - The date shown is the date of the OLRB decision in which the association was accredited. This sometimes differs slightly from the date on the certificate. If there is a discrepancy, then the date of the decision prevails.
- Geographic areas are approximate, (except for province-wide accreditations). Consult the decision/certificate for exact descriptions.
- Sectors - Section 126 (1) of the Labour Relations Act, 1995 defines "sector" as follows: "sector" means a division of the construction industry as determined by work characteristics and includes the industrial, commercial and institutional sector, the residential sector, the sewers and watermains sector, the roads sector, the heavy engineering sector, the pipeline sector and the electrical power systems sector. In this list "ICI" denotes the industrial, commercial and institutional sector. The sewers and watermains sector was originally referred to as the "sewers, tunnels and watermains sector". The word "tunnels" was removed by The Labour Relations Amendment Act, 1975, S.O. 1975, c.76 which came into force on July 18, 1975 . This amendment appears to have been precipitated by a debate over whether subway tunnels should fall into the heavy engineering sector or the sewers, tunnels and watermains sector (see The Heavy Construction Association of Toronto, [1973] OLRB Rep. May 245).