Roger Beaulieu

Board Member

Roger Beaulieu brings to the Public Service Labour Relations Board extensive senior management level experience in providing legal advice, directing human resources including labour relations, and negotiating mergers and acquisitions for large corporations based in Canada, the United States and globally. In the course of his career, he has been responsible for the negotiation of hundreds of collective agreements.

Mr. Beaulieu holds a B.A. and a law degree and is a member of the Quebec Bar. He began his career as chief labour lawyer for a variety of large companies beginning with Canadian National Railways. In 1977, he moved to the Iron Ore Company of Canada where he held the position of General Counsel and Senior Executive of Human Resources and was responsible for all collective bargaining agreements, arbitrations and legal disputes. He next served as Vice-President, Human Resources, Secretary and General Counsel at the Carling O’Keefe Brewing Company, where he represented the company before labour relations tribunals and superior courts. He also planned and concluded a major merger with another brewing company.

At Quebecor Printing Inc., he was responsible for the company’s human resources globally and for spearheading its acquisition strategy. He established Quebecor’s professional human resources department and managed 78 collective agreements with 15 international unions. At the Laurentian Bank of Canada, the only unionized Canadian bank, Mr. Beaulieu was again Vice-President of Human Resources, Labour Relations and Acquisitions.

At the creation of NAV CANADA and the privatization of air traffic control, Mr. Beaulieu negotiated that organization’s first collective agreement. Most recently, Mr. Beaulieu was Canadian Vice-President of Business Development for Computer Sciences Corporation where he focused on negotiating major global contracts.

Mr. Beaulieu was appointed as a full-time member of the Public Service Labour Relations Board on November 19, 2007 for a period of five years.