Do you have questions about the new pension deal? We have answers!
Join us for the Regina Civic Employees’ Pension Town Hall meeting to learn about the new plan, and ask your questions of pension experts, legal reps and members of the bargaining team.
When: December 15, 2014 | 7:00 p.m.
Where: Queensbury Convention Centre, Salon 1 (1700 Elphinstone Street, Regina)
Report confirms privatizing public liquor stores would mean millions in lost revenue for the province.
The Saskatchewan government maintains that their proposed privatization of the province’s liquor retailing system will not result in diminished government revenues. However, a new joint study by Alberta’s Parkland Institute and the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives demonstrates that even with the existing mark-up and taxation regime in place, the government stands to lose millions in potential revenue under a privatized liquor system.
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#NOTokay – a social media initiative empowering people to take every day action to end violence against women.
The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women was established to honour victims of the December 6, 1989 massacre at École Polytechnique in Montreal, where 14 women were murdered because they were women. One of those women, Maryse Laganière, was a CUPE member who worked at the school.
Canada’s labour movement has shown leadership in making workplaces safer for women and advancing the well-being and rights of women in all areas of society. It’s at the heart of what we do.
Let’s remember and work for change to end violence against women, and all forms of sexual and gender-based violence and discrimination in the workplace, at home, and in the community.
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Tom Graham, President of CUPE Saskatchewan
CUPE Saskatchewan joins with the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour in warning attempts to trade away workplace safety laws through the New West Partnership will not be without a fight.
On December 1, 2014, select corporate special interests and government officials from Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia began closed-door meetings to discuss “health and safety regulations that act as impediments to trade,” according to government documents, as part of the negotiations surrounding the New West Partnership.
Members from CUPE locals across the province headed home from CUPE Saskatchewan’s annual Aboriginal Council Conference inspired to be champions for change. Elections for CUPE Saskatchewan’s Aboriginal Council Committee and the Aboriginal Member to CUPE Saskatchewan’s Executive Board were also held at the conference.
REGINA: Members of the Regina Civic Pension Plan are one step closer to having a secure pension deal. The Pension and Benefits Committee, which represents the 21 employee groups, voted unanimously on Wednesday evening to support the pension agreement reached with the City of Regina. The City of Regina has also voted unanimously to support the amended pension deal.
REGINA: Recent news around patient care at Santa Maria raises important questions on Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region’s (RQHR’s) deficit reduction strategy, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).
Laundry workers feel hung out to dry with private laundry deal
Over 35 CUPE members and community supporters rallied at a lunchtime information picket on Wednesday, November 19, to call for fairness and respect for North Sask Laundry workers.
With the closure of the North Sask Laundry facility looming, CUPE Local 3736 laundry workers have been waiting over a year for news about severance and re-training support. Over 75 jobs are being lost in the Prince Albert area due to the privatization of laundry services under the Brad Wall government.
CUPE members from locals across the province are meeting in Prince Albert on November 20 and 21, 2014 for the annual CUPE Saskatchewan Aboriginal Council Conference. The two-day conference with the theme – Champion for Change – seeks to build union activism focusing on equality and rights for Aboriginal people in our workplaces and communities.
PRINCE ALBERT: Since the announcement of the closure of North Sask Laundry services in May 2013, laundry workers have been waiting for news on what support they will be provided with as the jobs and services they have maintained move out of the Prince Albert area.
The move comes from the announcement to privatize laundry services across Saskatchewan and to contract these services to K-Bro Linen, an Alberta-based private company.
North Sask Laundry workers and members of CUPE Local 3736 are conducting an information picket at their job site during their lunch break to call for respect and fair treatment, fairness in the transition period, fair severance packages and re-training support.