Introduction
On April 21, 2026, Collective Bargaining Ontario (CBO) launched its new redesigned Reports resource, an interactive database of wage trends and other information relating to collective agreements in the province. While there are still some apparent flaws that need to be ironed out, overall the new CBO Reports could be a helpful resource for labour lawyers who assist clients with collective bargaining and interest arbitration, and potentially also legal research for disputes about interpretation of collective agreement provisions.
I attended a training session on May 27 during which a CBO representative walked participants through the new CBO Reports interface. While the new version is not perfect (more on that below), it is greatly improved from the previous version of the resource, which users found difficult to navigate in both web browsers and on mobile devices. The CBO has made significant changes to make the interface more user-friendly and included more information than was previously available.
The CBO Reports are available at the following link: https://www.ontario.ca/page/collective-bargaining-ontario-interactive-reports. While there is far too much information in the Reports to summarize in an article of this length, below I highlight some of the information that I think would be most helpful to labour lawyers in the province. The Reports contain explanatory notes that provide additional information on the terms and metrics used and on other things that may be unclear at first glance.