The SGEU says the Regina jail has been hit with a COVID-19 outbreak that could hit them as hard as one at the Saskatoon jail. The union says there are 60 inmates who have been infected to go along with three staff. The Ministry of Corrections says that number is a little high as they […]
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 […]
After Saskatchewan’s government expanded the front-line worker wage top-up to include staff at integrated care homes, three of Saskatchewan’s health care unions have come forward to say the funding falls short. CUPE local 5430 Vice President Pearl Blommaert says the funding still doesn’t include acute care workers across the province. Blommaert says this is about […]
SGEU is calling on the provincial government to cover the pay for front-line workers that need to go into self-isolation. The union says at this time, workers are using their sick leave when their employers instruct them to go on self-isolation. In most cases, that would eat up two-thirds’ of the employee’s sick leave for […]
A letter has been sent to Premier Scott Moe by Saskatchewan’s health care unions asking for a wage top-up for health care employees. In a release sent out on Thursday morning, CUPE, SGEU and SEIU West called on the premier to “follow in the footsteps of almost every other jurisdiction in Canada” like what has been […]
Unionized workers at the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation have reached a tentative agreement. The SGEU bargaining unit has been without a contract since October 2016. The new agreement covers 400 workers in 21 offices across Saskatchewan and the head office in Melville. Full details were not disclosed but it is in line with recent […]
SGEU is calling on the provincial government to make use of the established distribution system operated by the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority if they would like to make specialty liquor products more accessible. The government announced changes to the Alcohol and Gaming Regulation Act on Wednesday, to allow third-party companies to distribute specialty liquor products from […]
A memorandum of agreement has been ratified by the province and SGEU for a six year deal. The union represents about 10,000 employees from government ministries, and were without a deal since 2016. The deal will see no wage increases for the first two years, followed by one percent, and three years of two percent increases each […]
SGEU members who work at the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board says they are at an impasse in bargaining and have asked the Minister responsible to appoint a provincial Labour Relations Officer to assist in reaching an agreement. A tentative deal was rejected in June and Debbie Wallace, Chair of the SGEU WCB Bargaining Committee, says […]
The Saskatchewan Government and General Employees’ Union (SGEU) believes more needs to be done to provide inmate and worker safety at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre. The request comes after multiple rival gang members were involved in a violent incident on Thursday in the prison’s yard. This is just one of several incidents that have […]
