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Anthony (Tony) Glavin has practised labour and workplace law since his call to the B.C. Bar in 1994. He became a partner in Askew Fiorillo Hughes & Glavin in 1997 and remained with the firm which ultimately became Glavin Gordon Clements and now Koskie Glavin Gordon.
Anthony’s practice includes representing unions in both the private and public sectors. His private sector clients represent workers in industries ranging from airlines, breweries and wineries, longshore, and newspapers to camera technicians, and performers in film and television. In the public sector he represents firefighters, resident doctors, and unions in the health care, post-secondary education, transportation, and municipal sectors. Anthony has also developed a significant health and welfare trust practice on behalf of unions, creating and implementing new health benefit joint trusts, including transitioning health and welfare trusts to Employee Life and Health Trusts.
Anthony’s practice routinely involves appearing before a range of administrative bodies including labour arbitrators, labour relations boards, pension standards tribunals, financial services tribunals, privacy commissioners, workers’ compensation boards, and human rights tribunals. As well, he pursues his clients’ interests at every level of the courts in British Columbia and in the federal jurisdiction. Anthony also participates in negotiations with several of his clients, including as chief spokesperson for Resident Doctors of BC, on behalf of Longshore workers, Ambulance Paramedics, and as chief spokesperson for the B.C. Council of Film Unions in industry bargaining with the film and television producers in Los Angeles.
As part of a firm providing full services to its clients, Anthony is involved in teaching a variety of labour law courses and each year puts on a week-long arbitration law course with two arbitrators for the Canadian Labour Congress Winter School in Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. Anthony and the firm are recognized by Best Lawyers, Chambers and Partners, and Lexpert as leaders in labour law in British Columbia.
