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Take care this holiday season As we enter this holiday season, we want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you. Your dedication, compassion, and unwavering commitment to serving the public make a meaningful difference…

In late October, SGEU submitted our 2026 provincial budget recommendations, outlining our priorities for strengthening public services and improving the lives of Saskatchewan residents. Our members deliver critical frontline services, and it is…

REGINA - Today, CUPE, SEIU-West, and SGEU met with Minister of Social Services Terry Jenson to address urgent challenges facing Saskatchewan’s community-based organization (CBO) sector. These workers deliver vital services to vulnerable…

November 8 is Indigenous Veterans Day across Canada, a day to recognize the contribution and sacrifice of 23,000 First Nations and Métis veterans who have served in the Canadian Armed Forces. Today, more than 2,700 Indigenous service…

SASKATCHEWAN - Today on CBO Workers Appreciation Day, CUPE, SEIU-West, and SGEU, unions representing people in over 80 community-based organizations (CBOs) across Saskatchewan, are united in their call for immediate meaningful change in the…

REGINA - Saskatchewan’s Health Provider Unions came to the legislature today to call for a new contract. Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Service Employees International Union-West (SEIU-WEST), and the…

Note: For much of the history of what would eventually become Saskatchewan, the land was populated by Indigenous peoples—including First Nations and, later, Métis women. Indigenous women have been living and building community on…

Indigenous women’s activism in Canada has a long history. The organizing work of Isabelle McNab, first president of the Saskatchewan Women’s Indian Association, can be seen as the precursor to later activism like this First Nations…

In May, The Saskatchewan Employment Amendment Act was given Royal Assent. The bill made numerous changes to workplace laws on topics such as overtime, group terminations and gratuities. One change that will impact SGEU workplaces is an…

PRINCE ALBERT – The Saskatchewan Government and General Employees’ Union (SGEU) is condemning the closure of the bookstores at the Prince Albert and Moose Jaw campuses of the Saskatchewan Polytechnic Institute. SGEU represents the…

SGEU Indigenous Committee member Bruce Clarke grew up in the northern village of Buffalo Narrows. He moved to Prince Albert in 2003, where he currently resides. He is a registered citizen of the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan and of Dene descent.…

A message from SGEU President Tracey Sauer:   On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we pause to reflect on the painful legacy of residential schools and the harm that colonialism has caused to Indigenous peoples across the…

Hon. Jeremy Cockrill, MLA Room 204 2405 Legislative Drive Regina, SK, S4S 0B3 he.minister@gov.sk.ca   Minister Cockrill, On Wednesday, September 3, you appeared on the Evan Bray radio show and spoke about the funding that the…

REGINA – Saskatchewan Government and General Employees’ Union (SGEU) President Tracey Sauer has responded to the Information Services Corporation’s (ISC’s) announcement of a “strategic…