Section 54 — Canada Labour Code: Application for order to serve notice to bargain

Where a bargaining agent receives notice of a technological change pursuant to section 52, the bargaining agent may, in order to assist the employees affected by the change to adjust to the effects of the change, apply to the Board, within thirty days after the date on which it receives the notice, for an order granting leave to serve on the employer a notice to commence collective bargaining for the purpose of revising the existing provisions of the collective agreement by which they are bound that relate to terms and conditions or security of employment; or including new provisions in the collective agreement that relate to terms and conditions or security of employment. Where the Board has received from a bargaining agent an application for an order under subsection (1),

and it is satisfied that the technological change in respect of which the bargaining agent has received notice given pursuant to section 52 is likely, substantially and adversely, to affect the terms and conditions or security of employment of a significant number of employees to whom the collective agreement between the bargaining agent and the employer applies, the Board may, by order, grant leave to the bargaining agent to serve on the employer a notice to commence collective bargaining for the purpose referred to in subsection (1).