LEAF Employees Vote Unanimously to Join Society of United Professionals
January 15, 2026
TORONTO - Employees of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) have unanimously voted to join the Society of United Professionals, IFPTE Local 160 (“the Society”). The newly certified bargaining unit includes all employees, including lawyers.
“We are delighted that the employees at LEAF choose our union,” says Rebecca Caron, President of the Society of United Professionals. “With this decision, they join the nearly 600 legal professionals currently represented by the Society. We look forward to providing these employees with the first-rate representation and bargaining support that the rest of our members enjoy.”
LEAF employees join a growing group of Society members working across Ontario’s legal sector, including at Legal Aid Ontario, the National Judicial Institute, the Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic, and Aboriginal Legal Services.
“At a time when we are seeing a heightened backlash against equality rights, we are proud to be strengthening our workplace, and securing our rights and the vital work we do by unionizing,” said Rosel Kim, LEAF Senior Staff Lawyer.
LEAF works to advance the substantive equality rights of women, girls, trans, and non-binary people in Canada through litigation, law reform and public education. The organization intervenes in key cases to ensure that when courts interpret equality rights, there will be a systemic improvement in the lives of women, trans, and non-binary people.
The Society of United Professionals continues to look for new opportunities to represent new groups of workers. Employees interested in improving their workplace can contact a Society Organizer at [email protected] for a confidential discussion.
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Media contact: Jeremy Johnston-Kaye, Communications Officer, 416-553-3516, [email protected]