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Upcoming events sponsored by CIRA
CIRA’s 2026 conference
The 63nd Annual CIRA Conference is taking place from June 2 to 4, 2026, at Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec. We welcome submissions from students, postdoctoral fellows, academics, and practitioners on a wide range of themes and topics.
Submitted proposals should be in the form of 500-word abstracts, including the title, as well as the name and affiliation of all authors, by February, 2nd 2026, to the following address: acri-cira2026@rlt.ulaval.ca
Click here to full details (call for proposals and registration)!
ILR Panel Discusses Collective Bargaining in Women’s Professional Hockey
To read more, please visit this link!
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:
Leah Vosko, York University
Dionne Pohler, University of Saskatchewan
"Building (Balanced) Bridges: Industrial Relations Scholarship in a Time of Polarization”
Allen Ponak 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].
Employer: Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB)
Deadline: August 7, 2023
CIRA’s positions
During the last years, CIRA took positions on important issues in the world of work.
Our Association
The Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA) is a diverse network of people from across Canada and around the world interested in promoting research, discussion and education in the field of work, labour, employment and industrial relations. CIRA sponsors conferences, encourages high quality research and practice, and fosters the building of relationships between members…