About - Oakbridges

The Oakbridges - Labour Relations Strategists practice has been established to bring like minded labour relations practitioners together to provide a unique value proposition. We advocate and help our clients develop strategies that create Shared Value and sustainable results.

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Management Team

We are thought leaders in the broader field of Industrial Relations. We develop custom strategies that go beyond traditional day to day Labour Relations and collective bargaining planning.

Hugh Secord

B.A., M.B.A., CHRP, SHRP

Chief Strategist

Hugh is an accomplished Labour Relations Professional with over 30 years of experience. He has been the Chief Negotiator in over 130 rounds of bargaining in all ten provinces.

Hugh has helped numerous organizations develop labour relations strategies that have lead to the creation of competitive advantage and shared value. Hugh has worked in the manufacturing, mining, pulp and paper, logistics, power and services industries.

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Sue Mackintosh

B.Comm., M.I.R.

Chief Strategist & Managing Director

Sue has 20 plus years experience in senior HR and LR roles. After graduating from Queen’s University with her B. Comm. and Masters of Industrial Relations Sue spent a good part of her career with the George Weston/Loblaw companies in senior HR/LR roles.

She then went on to be a senior leader in Labour Relations with Bruce Power where she improved the relationships with the Building Trade Unions.

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Our Vision

We believe that the success of any business depends on building direct positive relations with key stakeholders. Our focus starts with helping our client build long term strategies to build employee involvement and commitment. They are employees first.

Where the business operates union-free we help by building integrated approaches to maintain a direct relationship with employees. Where there are unions we help develop collaborative approaches to create shared goals and promote mutual interests.

We believe that the only sustainable competitive advantage any organization can create is through its’ employees. Business success made possible through a long term vision and a people strategy creates job security and allows all stakeholders to profit from the enterprise.

At Oakbridges we apply these principles to the development of labour relations strategies to engage employees, their representatives, third parties, government agencies and members of the community into a holistic approach to managing organizational culture. We are management side professionals that believe there is a need to transform the adversarial approach by seeking not only mutual interests but also the interests of all stakeholders in balance.

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About Us

Developing long term industrial relations strategies for over 30 years.