Alika Hendricks

    After my election as GTA Unit Director [in 2019], I visited members at every GTA office...  The concerns raised were diverse because our membership is diverse. The GTA unit is comprised of lawyers in a variety of roles -- from trial lawyers to policy counsel, research counsel to case management counsel, family and criminal DC to immigration and clinic counsel, serving clients in both English and in French. Our issues are not all the same, but we all want to be safe at work. We want our employer to support us -- not hinder us -- and provide us with the resources we need to serve our vulnerable clients. We want fairness and transparency, flexible work, and equitable access to professional development and career advancement. I believe that our diversity, and our areas of shared interest, are strengths that can be leveraged at the bargaining table. Leveraged in the same way that they were during our organizing campaign to secure the right to collectively bargain with LAO.

  -- Alika Hendricks