Lawyers Joshua Mandryk

Joshua Mandryk

Partner

• Location:

  Toronto

• Phone:

  416-979-6970

• Fax:

  416-591-7333

• Email:

  jmandryk@goldblattpartners.com

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Biography

Josh Mandryk is a fighter for workers’ rights. From union organizing law to employment class actions to collective bargaining and grievance arbitration, Josh is proud to help advance the rights of working people day in and day out.

Josh prides himself in being an organizer’s lawyer. He understands the demanding nature of union organizing work, and always aims to work as hard as the organizers he’s assisting. When organizers need strategic advice or guidance on the law of organizing, Josh is only a call away.

In his general labour law practice, Josh acts for unions with respect to grievance arbitration, internal union affairs and collective bargaining matters. Josh also regularly acts for unions in public policy consultations and law reform initiatives.

In his class actions practice, Josh helps groups of non-unionized workers join together to enforce their rights at work. Josh has helped achieve multi-million dollar settlements for classes of employees including security guards, travel agents, and personal trainers and other fitness workers. Whether it’s employee misclassification, wage theft or unpaid overtime, Josh helps workers use class actions as a tool to fight for what they deserve.

Josh is committed to education within the labour movement and the legal community. Josh frequently facilitates client seminars on organizing, collective bargaining, grievance administration and other issues. He acts as an instructor for various courses in the McMaster Labour Studies certificate program, and teaches Beyond the Standard Labour Law Model: Construction, Film the Gig Economy and Beyond at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

Josh was an amateur boxer in his youth and was the winner of the Brampton Cup, the Arnie Boehm Tournament and the Ray McGibbons Gloves. Boxing taught Josh many lessons that he has translated into his legal practice: the importance of discipline and timing, how to channel nerves to perform under pressure, and that the fight is often won or lost in the preparation that occurs long before you step into the ring.