The Government of Saskatchewan has announced amendments to The Employment Standards Regulations that will extend job protection to employees looking to access the Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit and Caregiving Benefit. The amendments include providing job protection for all employees: • who are absent from work due to illness, self-isolating or who have an underlying health […]
Workers at the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency represented by SGEU are asking for a Labour Relations Officer to step in and assist with a satisfactory agreement as efforts to reach a new contract are not going anywhere. The workers say they are doing so because an impasse has been reached and that while progress has been […]
A group of SEIU-West members will be outside of health care facilities in Moose Jaw today Wednesday demonstrating their frustration with the pace of bargaining and what they call, the Saskatchewan government’s refusal to negotiate a fair deal. Demonstrators will rotate between Providence Place, Crescent View Clinic, and Dr. FH Wigmore Regional Hospital between 11:30 […]
The province has come to terms with the Health Sciences Association of Saskatchewan on a new six year contract. The deal, which retroactively runs from 2018 to 2024, sees no wage increase in the first two years of the deal with increases of one percent in the third year and two percent in the final […]
The man speaking for Unifor Local 594 during the nearly seven-month lockout at the Co-Op Refinery that officially ended this week will not be returning to his job. Kevin Bittman tells “The Regina Leader-Post” he is not only not going to return to the refinery after 20 years as a master opertor, but he will […]
Friday’s announcement by the province that the minimum wage is going up by 13 cents an hour is being met with outrage by the province’s NDP leader. Ryan Meili says the increase is an “insult” and does nothing to help witht he majority of families that were already living paycheque to paycheque before COVID-19. Meili […]
A union representing more than 12,000 health-care and long-term care workers in Saskatchewan has written to the premier warning of job action if there is no change in negotiations. Service Employees International Union West says that in late May a bargaining agent for the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations shut down a collective bargaining session […]
Saskatchewan’s minimum wage will be going up on October 1. The province announced on Friday that as of that date, the minimum wage will be $11.45 per hour which is a .13 cent hike. “We have established sustainable and predictable minimum wage increases,” Labour Relations and Workplace Safety Minister Don Morgan said. “This helps families […]
It was on December 5, 2019 that Federated Co-Op Limited locked out over 700 workers at the refinery in Regina, represented by UNIFOR Local 594, after 48 hour strike notice was given. On June 5, 2020, six months later, the two sides are still at odds in a labour dispute which has divided a city […]
Weather is being blamed for an incident May 22 where an unknown amount of oil from the Co-Op refinery spilled into city sewers. In a statement from Federated Co-Op, the company says the issue was detected May 22 when analysis showed irregularities. The early investigation shows strong, sustained winds leading up to May 22 resulted […]
