News Bulletins

June 15, 2010

Find the Balance:  new SGEU shiftwork poster


SGEU's Shiftwork Committee has produced a poster that features a vibrant, full colour original illustration depicting the issues that are most important to those who work non-standard hours.  The poster offers shift workers strategies to help them find a balance in their lives.  The poster is available to SGEU members.  Contact cmoore [at] sgeu [dot] org.


 

April 13, 2010

Equality Day is celebrated across Canada on April 17 to mark the coming into force of the equality provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on April 17, 1985.

April 12, 2010

NDP Employment critic Cam Broten questioned why the Wall government chose to cut funding from several labour force development programs in their recent budget.

April 12, 2010

NUPGE president James Clancy says the acrimonious U.S.health care debate offers a welcome reminder that Canada’s national Medicare program is a triumph of both values and economics.

April 09, 2010

Like Canada's Westray tragedy in 1992, the deaths of 25 coal miners in West Virginia could have been prevented with tougher laws to crack down on negligent corporate operators.

April 08, 2010

SGEU's annual convention begins next week. Close to 300 delegates, guests and speakers will meet in Saskatoon April 15 - 17, 2010.

The theme of the convention is Standing Together. Click here to view the finalized agenda.

April 08, 2010




Income inequality has been growing in Canada, but it's even worse for Aboriginal peoples. For every dollar non-Aboriginals earned in 2006, Aboriginal peoples earned only 70 cents – a slight narrowing from 1996 when it was 56 cents for every dollar.

April 07, 2010

Help CUPE, SEIU and SGEU health care workers send the government a message: we deserve a contract!
 

Tuesday, April 13:

Rally at SAHO's AGM at the Regina's Queensbury Centre from 4 pm to 6 pm.

April 07, 2010

Employment Minister Rob Norris defies International Labour Organization ruling.

by Joe Kuchta

April 06, 2010

Cutting public broadcaster SCN deprives province of economic activity and opportunity to tell its own stories.

 

by Jian Ghomeshi, from a Radio Q monologue on CBC

April 06, 2010

In co-operation with Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada (MADD), SGEU is airing our "Innocent" television ad over the next two weeks promoting the value of public liquor store workers to our communities.

For more information, click here.

April 05, 2010

The Saskatchewan Government and General Employees Union announced today the successful ratification of a deal between its Public Service Sector and the government.


The tentative agreement, announced last month included wage increases of 1.5%, 2%, and 2% along with employment security. 

April 05, 2010

What have Unions ever done for us? from Australia. 



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March 31, 2010

NUPGE president James Clancy says decision by United Nations body 'damages the human rights reputation of both the province and the Canadian government.'

March 31, 2010
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has issued a stinging rebuke to the government of Saskatchewan, primarily over two pieces of anti-labour legislation adopted in 2008 (Bills 5 and 6).
March 25, 2010

The Public Service Alliance of Canada condemns the Harper government’s decision to close Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax. The union maintains that the closure of the three offices will make it substantially harder for individuals from marginalized groups to launch human rights complaints.


March 25, 2010
The Saskatchewan Party Government is winding down our broadcast Crown Corporation, as more proof of its commitment to destroy the Crowns despite assurances it will not. 
March 25, 2010

The Saskatchewan Federation of Labour is unimpressed with the provincial government’s deficit budgeting and is questioning the government’s motives behind its fiscal strategy.

March 24, 2010
Saskatchewan Budget 2010: Quality of our public services sure to suffer


Brad Wall stated that this year’s budget would lead Saskatchewan down “a different path.” Unfortunately, in a manner that is far too reminiscent of other conservative governments, the Saskatchewan Party has decided to make the public service bear the brunt of the government’s financial miscalculations.

March 24, 2010

Saskatchewan Budget

The provincial government's plan to cut the public service by 15 per cent over the next four years is a short-sighted measure that will put public safety at risk, according to the Saskatchewan Government and General Employees' Union (SGEU).

"The government's intention, announced in today's budget, to cut jobs by four per cent every year for four years, by not filling vacancies due to retirements, is ill-conceived, unworkable and unsustainable," said SGEU President Bob Bymoen.