Patty Hajdu: “This is designed as a package to drive people to getting their own deals earlier and at the table.”

What I hear more from Ontario parents, to be frank, is the need for additional spots and the need for the growth of the system overall.

I think the pressure is extremely high when it's in a transportation sector that is transporting essential goods, transporting perishable goods.

And that mediator's report — should it become public — is not going to be pleasant for a company's shareholders [or] their reputation in Canada and worldwide. Nobody wants to know that their shipper had a deal at the table and didn't pick…

In the past, if an employer was refusing to bargain or was removing things from previous offers or acting in a way that was not bargaining in good faith, the union members could talk about it, but they couldn't necessarily prove it,