If you need to call SaskTel for something on Monday, you might not have any luck. Striking workers formed a perimeter around the company’s call centre on Henderson Drive in Regina Monday morning preventing managers from entering the building and filling in, meaning for the time being the centre is not in operation. Chris MacDonald, […]
(Files from Drew Postey) At midnight on Friday, close to 5,000 Unifor members at six crown corporations and one crown agency officially went on Strike in Saskatchewan. This comes after a tentative agreement was not reached between the Crowns and the union, according to Unifor, the bargaining process has been made more difficult by the […]
(Files from Drew Postey) At midnight on Friday, close to 5,000 Unifor members at six crown corporations and one crown agency officially went on Strike in Saskatchewan. This comes after a tentative agreement was not yet reached between the crowns and the union. And according to Unifor, the bargaining process has been made more difficult […]
Unifor, the union representing over 4,000 workers at Saskatchewan Crown Corporations and another government agency, says an impasses has been reached in contract talks meaning a full-scale strike starts Friday. A work-to-rule campaign started Monday with members refusing to work overtime and disregarding any of the company’s performance targets with the threat of the strike […]
Services at three of Saskatchewan’s main Crowns will be affected later this week if a planned strike by almost 4,500 employees goes ahead as planned by their union. Unifor announced on the weekend a full-scale strike would occur on Friday if a new deal was not reached with the provincial government. A “work-to-rule” campaign has […]
The union representing around 4,700 workers at SaskTel, two of their subsidiaries along with SaskPower, Sask Energy, SaskWater and the Water Security agency have given notice that “work-to-rule” job action will begin Monday morning. Unifor released a statement Saturday afternoon saying no further negotiations with the provincial government are planned for the weekend and the […]
An impasse has been declared by the union representing 800 workers at the Co-Op Refinery. Unifor says the decision comes after nine months of bargaining with a statement from them saying members are key to safety at the refinery so it is reasoable that a company making over a billion dollars in profit put a […]
Unifor issued a news release on Thursday stating that five more Crown Corporations and one Crown Agency (SaskEnergy, SaskPower, SecurTek, DirectWest, SaskWater, and the Water Security Agency) had joined SaskTel with the threat of job action as soon as midnight Monday. Crown employees are seeking a wage hike after they learned that Premier Scott Moe […]
Unifor members of Saskatchewan’s Crown corporations gathered at Hotel Saskatchewan to try and get deals done for the nearly 5,000 members in a strike position. Bargaining will take place Thursday and Friday to try to get a deal done. If it doesn’t, Unifor has said they will come together to make a determination of when […]
SaskTel has been warned of a possible strike by Unifor if a collective agreement has not been reached within the next several days. The union has delivered a strike notice to the Crown corporation which would begin at 12:01 a.m. on September 30. Unifor’s SaskTel members were in favour for a strike mandate back in […]
