Lawyer

Alison McEwen maintains a national practice for a variety of union clients across Canada, with a focus on Ottawa and Eastern Ontario. She exclusively works for union clients and individual employees, with experience at the Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court and Court of Appeal, the Ontario Superior Court, as well as at the Ontario Labour Relations Board, arbitration, mediation, and the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. In representing her clients, Alison feels strongly about ensuring those with less power have a voice and are properly represented. She does not, and will not, represent employers.

She develops a good relationship with her clients and understands what is important to them to ensure solutions that work best for her clients.

Alison also has extensive experience negotiating collective agreements and has advised her union clients in numerous other collective bargaining problems.

For ten years, Alison was a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa Faulty of Law teaching the Employment Law course in the English common law program.

Outside of the office, Alison’s major interest is equestrian events, specifically show jumping, and is active on the provincial competition circuit.