CV

• Gender earnings gap, motherhood penalty, workplace practices

• Collective bargaining, strikes, union organizing, inter-union competition

Instructor (Western University)

• Labour Economics - Bargaining (Econ 2156) (2017-2019)

• Health Economics (Health Sciences 3090, 3840) (2016, 2018)

• Masters of Financial Economics Macroeconomics Summer Refresher (2016)

Teaching Assistant, Graduate Courses (University of Toronto)

• Data Analytics and Metrics for IR/HR (IRE 2004, Prof. Greg Distelhorst) (2022, 2023)

• Personal Leadership (RSM 5600 - Rotman EMBA, Prof. Gary Latham) (2021-2023)

• Research Methods for IR/HR (IRE 2002, Prof. Brad Seward) (2022)

• Labour Markets and Public Policy (IRE 1010, Prof. Frank Reid) (2019-2022)

• Applied Statistics in Industrial Relations (IRE 1002, Prof. Hua Wang) (2021,2023)

Potter, Shannon, Dionne Pohler, Kate Hayman, and Megan Landes. It’s the Kids: The Gender Pay Gap Among Emergency Physicians. (Complete manuscript, target journal: Management Science.)

Potter, Shannon. How conflict spreads across organizations: An analysis of Ontario strikes. (Revise and Resubmit, ILR Review)

Potter, Shannon. Inter-union competition and wages of unionized workers. (Complete manuscript)

Potter, Shannon, Dionne Pohler, Michael Baker, Sarah Kaplan, and April Franco. Are Women

Moving to Family Friendly Firms? Evidence from Canadian Administrative Data (Analyzing data)

Shannon Potter and Jennifer Harmer. Unions and COVID-19 in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes

(Drafting manuscript)

Coming to Terms with Wage Restraints

• Labor and Employment Relations Association 76th Annual Meeting (2024)

Inter-union competition and wages of unionized workers

• Labor and Employment Relations Association 75th Annual Meeting (2023)

Do Strikes Spill Over? An Analysis of Local Strikes in Ontario, 1982-2014

• Labor and Employment Relations Association 75th Annual Meeting (2023)

Emergency Department Physicians and the Gender Pay Gap

• Canadian Industrial Relations Association 60th Annual Meeting (2023)

• Institute Gender and the Economy 5th Annual Research Roundtable (2023)

Are Women Moving to Family Friendly Firms? Evidence from Canadian Administrative Data

• Canadian Economics Association 58th Annual Meeting (2024)

• Canadian Industrial Relations Association 61st Annual Meeting (2024)

• Institute for Gender and the Economy, G-Lab Research Seminar (internal) (2023)

COVID-19 and Organizations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

• International Labor and Employment Relations Association World Congress (2021)

Strategies for Organizing Undergraduate Student Workers and Building Cross-Rank Worker Solidarity

• Labor and Employment Relations Association 73th Annual Meeting (2021)

Trustee

• Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3902

Coordinating Committee Member / Director 

• Coalition of Graduate/Student Employee Unions

Organizing Committee Member

• Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions Annual Meetings (2017, 2019-2021)

• ILERA Graduate Student Consortium (2020)

Strike Committee (Chair, Strike Headquarters and Supplies)

• University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (2018)

President

• Public Service Alliance of Canada Local 610  (2017-2018)

Bargaining Team Member (Teaching Assistants) 

• Public Service Alliance of Canada Local 610  (2017-2018)

Union Steward (Economics)

• Public Service Alliance of Canada Local 610 (2016-2017)

Graduate Student Representative

• Graduate Affairs Committee, Western University (Economics) (2014-2015, 2016-2017)

• Committee on Academic Policy, Western University (Economics) (2015-2016)