Steven Barrett is managing partner in the law firm Sack Goldblatt Mitchell where he represents unions. His prac-tice includes public interest litigation under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and in the area of health and trade policy; advocacy before labour and other administrative tribunals and before the courts on judicial review applications and appeals (including numerous appeals before the Supreme Court of Canada); collective bargaining and interest arbitration, primarily in the health and broader public sector; and advocating on behalf of various un-ions and professional associations with respect to government legislative and policy initiatives. Some of Steven’s cases include Lavigne v. OPSEU (constitution does not preclude unions using dues for political purposes); Andrews v. Law Society of B.C. (the first major equality rights case under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms); Rizzo & Rizzo Shoes Ltd. (employees entitled to termination and severance pay on employer’s bankruptcy); CUPE & SEIU v. Minister of Labour (government interference in the independence of boards of interest arbitration); UFCW, Local 1518 v. KMart (union leafleting protected as constitutional freedom of expression); Vriend v. Alberta (human rights protections for lesbian and gay employees in Alberta); Dunmore v. Ontario (Attorney General) (collective bargaining rights for agricultural workers); Health Services and Support-Facilities Subsector Bargaining Assn. v. British Columbia (collective bargaining protected by freedom of association guarantee).