Daina Green

Areas of expertise and projects

Labour Consultant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Daina leading Barbados PE workshop

Areas of Expertise

Since 1990, I have provided service to unions, community groups, government, non-governmental organizations, joint workplace committees and groups of non-unionized workers on:
  • Pay equity, including negotiation of plans, selection, development, and modification of job comparison systems; training and communication; representation before Ontario Pay Equity Review Services and Hearings Tribunal.
  • Design, development, implementation and evaluation of educational programs for trade unions, employees, supervisors, and community organizations; facilitation of workshops in English, French and Spanish; design, writing and editing of training manuals; consultation on video production, documentation of process and outcomes.
  • Design and delivery of project evaluation, job evaluation and compensation studies, including focus groups, key informant interviews, comparisons and reports,involving diverse groups across Canada and other countries.
  • Employment equity programs, including: employment systems review, awareness training, incorporating gender perspective, guiding implementation committee, developing components of a plan, barrier identification and removal, anti-racism and anti-harassment measures, and communication strategies.
  • Project design, project management, policy development and conference planning.
  • Research and consultation on project design and policy development.
Translation/Interpretation (Spanish-English-Spanish)

Fully trilingual in English, Spanish and French. Written and oral translation and interpretation
(English/Spanish/English; French/English, French/Spanish). I also work in Portuguese.
Delivery by e-mail, fax, or hard copy. For further information about my services, see the translation and interpretation page.

Selected Educational Programs Developed and Delivered

Pay Equity and Employment Equity for Joint Committees in Public Service Establishments
(Public Services International, Salvador and Maceio, Brazil, June 2008)

Maintaining Pay Equity in Ontario: a how-to update (Service Employees International Union,
March and October 2007).

Pay Equity Maintenance for Police Associations (Police Association of Ontario, September 2007).

Job Evaluation Methods (Training of Trainers for Public Service Employers and Public Service Association of Trinidad and  Tobago, July and
December 2006, January 2007)

Pay Equity and Job Evaluation/ Equidad Salarial y Evaluación de Puestos (Public Service International)
Sao Paolo and Sao Luis, Brazil, 2007 and 2006; Quito, Ecuador, 2007 and 2005; Kingston, Jamaica, 2007;
Trinidad & Tobago, 2005 - 2007; San José, Costa Rica, March 2004; Bogota, Colombia,
April 2004; Barbados June 2004).

Respectful Workplaces (Windsor Raceway/Service Employees International Union, November 2003).

Maintaining a harassment-free working environment for Nonprofits and Employees
(Iler Campbell Tools Course, Toronto; with Lisa Loader, June 2002).

Dignity in the Workplace (United Food and Commercial Workers Training Centre; with Graham Dowdell; December 2001).

Dealing with Violence in the Workplace/ Organizing vulnerable workers (3-hour workshops,
in French and English, UFCW Canadian Council Women's Conference,
Winnipeg, September 2001, also Calgary, September 1999). 

Anti-Discrimination Awareness and Policy Development Training (Expertech Network Installation, Inc. and
CEP Joint Workforce Diversity Committee, Ontario/Quebec; with Tina Lopes; April, 2000).

Four workshops for CEP Ontario Women's Conference (Dare to Find your Voice: Assertiveness and Public Speaking;
Allies in Equality: Strategies for Women on the Move to Convention; Daring to Balance our Lives: Stress and Health;
and Union Judo for Women: Dealing with Conflict at Work ; Orillia, ON Spring 2000).

Workplace Anti-harassment Sensitization Sessions
(Acme Davis Pipe and Tube and UFCW Local 175; Mississauga, ON January 2000).

Four workshops for CEP National Women's Conference, French and English; Ottawa, November 1999).

Facing Conflict with Confidence/Comment faire face aux conflits avec confiance;
Women's Life Cycle, Health and Stress/La santé des femmes, le stress et le cycle de vie;
Harassment and Safety on the Job/La violence, le harcèlement et la sécurité au travail;
Getting Past the Barriers to Full Participation in the Union/Comment vaincre les obstacles
à la pleine participation au syndicat; Balancing Work and Family Responsibilities/
Conciliation du travail et des responsabilités familiales (3-hour workshops,
UFCW Canadian Council Women's Conference, Calgary, September 1999).

Anti-Harassment Policy and Procedure Development and Training
(Joint union-management committee, NOW Magazine, Toronto, April 1999).

Problem-solving Strategies for Interpreters (Canadian Consulate-General,
Hong Kong, July 1999)

Anti-Harassment Policies that Work: Key to Preventing Complaints (Canadian
Society for the Advancement of Workplace Solutions-- CSAWS, November 1998).

Workplace Anti-Harassment Seminar (Carpenters Local 27, November 1998).

Anti-Discrimination Policy and Awareness Sessions for Stewards and
Managers (Joint program, Parmalat Canada/UFCW, Kitchener, ON., June, 1998).

Gender Perspective in the Public Service and Public Policy
(Spanish-language seminars--National Women's Secretariat-SERNAM/
International Cooperation Agency-AgCI, Santiago, CHILE, April, 1998).

Taking on Harassment at Work (10-hour workshop, training manuals and
resource kits-- Ontario Provincial Women's Conference, Communication, Energy and
Paperworkers Union, April, 1998).

Job Justice: A matter of employment equity (workshop--Urban Alliance for Race
Relations, March 1998).

Addressing Harassment in the 90s (resource manual and seminar delivery to union
staff across Canada-- United Food and Commercial Workers, 1997).

Cross-Constituency Awareness Training Program on Labour Market Issues
(five training guides on workplace issues specific to Women, Racial Minorities,
Persons with Disabilities, Labour, and Francophones; training of trainers
component for Women, Racial Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities--
Local Boards Implementation Team, 1996).

Working Out An Employment Equity Plan: The union as stakeholder in
organizational change (5-day intensive course on developing an employment
equity plan, including training of trainers-- United Steelworkers, District 6, 1995).

Constructing Change (3 modules on harassment and employment equity for
apprentices and union officials; with Jill Jones--Provincial Building Trades
Council of Ont./Ont. Women's Directorate, 1994).

Balancing Work and Family Responsibilities (National conference, resource
manual, and assistance with video--United Food and Commercial Workers, 1992).

Anti-Racism Workshop/Atelier contre le racisme (CLC Atlantic Region, 1992).

Women of Steel; week-long educational women's empowerment  and leadership program, United Steelworkers Canada (1990)

Policy Development

I have advised on the development of a number of equity plans, including the Equality Action Plan (adopted by the Communications, Energy
and Paperworkers Union of Canada, 1998) and the innovative Anti-Discrimination Policy (Parmalat Canada/UFCW, Kitchener, ON, 1998).

Selected Consultancies in Job Evaluation

PROJECT PARTY/PARTIES YEAR
Job Evaluation/Pay Equity System (joint) Niagara Regional Police Service/Niagara Regional Police Association/ NRP Senior Officers' Association
 2005 - in process
Job Evaluation/Pay Equity System (joint) Windsor Police Service/Windsor Police Association
 2004-2007
Job Evaluation/Pay Equity System (joint) London Police Service/London Police Association 2002-2003
Job Evaluation/Pay Equity System (joint) Township of Georgian Bay
 2002-2003

Job Evaluation/Pay Equity System

McMaster University/CAW Local 555
2003 -2007
Job Evaluation/Pay Equity System
 Wilfrid Laurier University and WLU Staff Association 2002-2005
Job Evaluation/Equity Study (joint) CP Rail/ Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees 1999
Pay equity review and appeals (joint) York University/ York University Staff Association 1999 - 2001
Job Evaluation/Pay Equity System
 Haliburton Highlands Health Service and SEIU Local 1
 2005 - 2006
Review of job evaluation process and instruments CEP National Office/Counsel Peter Engelmann (Federal Human Rights Commission complaint involving Bell Canada) 1997
Critique of job evaluation system Unrepresented Supervisory Registered Nurses/ Counsel Leslie Dizgun (London Health Sciences Centre) 1997-99
Compensation Study of Senior Management (joint) Ontario Teachers Insurance Plan 1995-1996
Job Evaluation system review and revisions Laurentian University Staff Union (and Laurentian University) 1995-1997
Job Evaluation system review and revision CUPE Local 1996 (and Toronto Public Library) 1994
Design of Job Evaluation system and training of committee Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation and Boards of Education of Hearst and Espanola (also Carleton and Essex Boards of Education) 1992-1996
Job Evaluation system review and revision International Association of Machinists, Lodge 1922 1994
Job Evaluation system review and development of system Labourers' International Union of North America Local 183 (and Building Maintenance contractors) 1994-5

PARTIAL LIST OF CLIENTS

Equity/ Human Rights Programs

                              Green, D.Z., "An attempt to save Employment Equity: Community advocacy vs. the Ontario Government."
                               in Feminism, Law, Inclusion: Intersectionality in Action, MacDonald,G., Osborne R.,  Smith C., eds.
                              Sumach Press, Toronto, 2005.

                              Green, D.Z., “Maintaining Pay Equity Plans: The Association’s Role.” Police Association of Ontario Magazine, Winter 2003.

Global Diffusion of the World Social Forum: the politics of place and scale, a vision from Canada, by Janet Conway. [Spanish title: Difusión global del Foro Social Mundial: la política de lugar y escala vista desde Canadá]. In Camino a un mundo nuevo: El Foro Social Mundial, Fondo Editorial Question, Caracas Venezuela, 2006.

Sacred Earth, Sacred Community: Jubilee, Econolgy and Aboriginal Peoples. Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative, Toronto, 2000. [Chapters: The Earth and Labour in the Service of Life, by Normand Breault (from French); Ecofeminism: An Ethics of Life, by Yvone Gebara (from French); Calling in Multiple Ecological Debts, by Leonardo Boff (from Portuguese); Eco-Human Rights, by Diego Irrarázaval (from Spanish)]

Alternatives for the Americas: Building a People’s Hemispheric Agreement. Common Frontiers and Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ottawa, 1999. [Spanish title: Alternativas para las Américas: Hacia la Construcción de un Acuerdo Hemisférico de los Pueblos. ]

"Social Charters: Perspectives From the Americas," Common Frontiers. Latin American Working Group Letter No. 48, Toronto, 1997. [Spanish title: Cartas Sociales: Perspectivas desde las Américas.]

David, Hélène, "'Action Positive' in the Quebec Trade Union Movement," In Union Sisters: Women in the Labour Movement, Briskin, L. and Yanz, L., eds., Women's Press, Toronto, 1983.

David, Françoise, "Women's Committees: The Quebec Experience." In Union Sisters: Women in the Labour Movement, Briskin, L. and Yanz, L., eds., Women's Press, Toronto, 1983.